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Articles
Religion as Good, or Evil?
Richard Dawkins, like his intellectual forebears David Hume, Feurbach, Emile Zola and countless others, claims not to be religious. In saying so, he is not being entirely honest, for whether Dr. Dawkins realizes it...
Editor's Corner
Parents’ Day?
Tomorrow, besides being the much more important solemnity of Corpus Christi (at least here in Canada, more on which in a bit) is also Father's Day, and a recent discussion I heard on the...
Nota in Brevis
Real Prairie State Socialism
Pursuant to my thoughts this morning on Kathleen Wynne's splashing other people's money around to further fund the public service and, as a happy accidental (?) addendum, also ensure her and her Liberals a...
Editor's Corner
Wynne’s Socialist Largesse
Alexis de Tocqueville is proved right once again, that the tyranny of the majority lies inherent in any democracy. Our erstwhile Premier, Kathleen Wynne, has just brazenly approved an across-the-board 7.5% pay raise for...
Editor's Corner
Captain Fantastic and Hollywood’s Anti-Catholicism
Viggo Mortensen, the same actor who played Strider/Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, seems to enjoy getting naked in his non-Tolkien films, evincing, perhaps, certain latent exhibitionist fantasies: In Eastern Promises, he...
Editor's Corner
Saint Anthony and Our Lady
There is a curious connection with today’s memorial of Saint Anthony of Padua, the place in Italy where he died (in 1231), for he is also known as Saint Anthony of Lisbon, the place...
Editor's Corner
An Irish Monk in Scotland
We celebrate in our particular diocese today the feast of Saint Columbkille (521-597), an Irish monk from Donegal on the wild west coast of the emerald isle, whose Gaelic name means 'dove of the...
Articles
Tattoo You?
An interesting factoid I recently came across, one borne out by anecdotal evidence, is that 3 out of 10 Americans now have tattoos, and I presume that number to be at least as high...
