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Editor's Corner
Our Original, Glorious and Very Catholic Anthem
A happy and grateful Canada Day to all our readers which I prefer to call Dominion Day, as signifying more fully our allegiance to our king - or, as we now have, queen -...
Editor's Corner
Canada’s Dominion Day
A blessed Canada, or more properly, Dominion Day to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of ‘Canada’ as a (mostly) independent part of the British Commonwealth since the signing into...
Editor's Corner
Virtue and Vice, and Not Everything Nice
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
What does it mean to be ‘virtuous’? There is virtue-signaling, with its pejorative sense, even though one might interpret...
Editor's Corner
The Astronomer and Physicist and Worlds Colliding
What have ancient Greek philosophy, a prophecy of Christ and Covid in common, and might this commonality be used to find common ground? Read on, Macduff, and find out:
For people once on familiar speaking...
Editor's Corner
Recognizing Lies and Truth
There are different ways to lie. The classical definition is ‘to enunciate a falsehood with the intent to deceive’, derived from Saint Augustine, adopted by Saint Thomas (I-II, 110, 1-2), who draws from this...
Editor's Corner
Remembering All the Children
There are different ways of being a hypocrite, some worse than others. There are some of us – let’s just say all of us - who say one thing and do another, out of...
Editor's Corner
Complicit Complaisance and Flying the Rainbow
To paraphrase a popular alliterative 1958 novelty song, we are becoming a nation of pathological people pleasers – and by ‘we’ I mean those on the side of truth, goodness and beauty. Those pushing...
Editor's Corner
What Happens If the Money Runs Out?
That, dear reader, is the wrong question to ask, for money is a symbol, with no intrinsic value; hence, there no limit to how much money might be printed, (or, now, conjured up on...
