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Editor's Corner
The Fall of Malta? But Not of Vella
We need more leaders like George Vella, current president of Malta. The small jewel of an island nation, in the middle of the Mediterranean, with one of the most pleasant climates and locales on...
Editor's Corner
Corrupting Constitutions, Controlled Commuting and Changing Climates
In discussing the theme of Church-State relations in class, I offer students examples of constitutions of various countries, those founding documents that shape the laws and mores of the nation. As the refrain against...
Editor's Corner
Christus Vincit!
A blessed solemnity of Christ the King to all our readers! A rather recent feast, as Church history goes, first promulgated by Pope Pius XI in the wake of the 'war to end all...
Editor's Corner
Drifting Down the Stream
The saying has it that politics is downstream of culture, and I would only add that so is everything else. For what is a nation or a people but its culture, all that makes...
Editor's Corner
Dancing Away the Darkness
Saint Francis de Sales once quipped, if my fallible memory serves, that dances were a lot like mushrooms: Even the best weren't worth that much. We might retort, that mushrooms do help bring out...
Editor's Corner
The Fate of Unbaptized Babies: Matthew Plese…Please Distinguish
Over at OnePeterFive, columnist Matthew Plese, who, according to his by-line, is a Third Order Dominican and an official catechist, claims as Church dogma that unbaptized infants cannot enter heaven, and, hence, are doomed...
Editor's Corner
Deep Fakes, Deep Lies
Imagine seeing yourself on a video doing and saying things - especially scandalous things - you never did. At least, you cannot recall them, and you know you would never do them. I need...
Editor's Corner
Billionaire Bill and the Woeful Wages of Mammon
Sam Kriss has an intriguing take on Bill Gates, and what being that rich - I mean, really, unimaginably rich - does to someone. As Alec Baldwin says in the film The Edge, 'rich...
