John Paul Meenan, Editor

I had trouble at first believing it, but I just checked, and it's true: the English translations of Pope Saint John Paul II's Wednesday audiences have been deleted from the Vatican website: https://twitter.com/protectthefaith/status/1783527425135038782?s=42&t=83OSIayTnuI3BEvKR4ry8w This is rather...

It seems slow - walking, that is - and, to our modern modes of transport, it is. Bikes can move at about 20 miles per hour; cars, 60; airplanes, 400 or more. Yet, as Nick...

As readers may know, Scotland is the land of my birth and early upbringing, and I have been back a number of times to the auld sod. The brogue is still somewhat natural to...

This April 1st is the Monday of Easter Octave - and a continued blessed one to all. Christus resurrexit vere, alleluia! But in the secular world All Fools' Day, fitting for Prime Minister Trudeau's...

On the theme of suffering on this Good Friday, there is a pertinent and evocative reflection by James Bogle on OnePeterFive on the bombing of Japanese Catholicism - that is, the unnecessary destruction of...

What we seem to know of what happened in Moscow, is that four gunmen stormed a sold-out concert, killed at least 137 people - many more, up to 200, were injured, some critically. But...

(Another re-post, which I hope helps the reader see his way through our current thicket) G.K. Chesterton once quipped that a rhinoceros in a china shop has all the power, but no authority. The curator,...

(In light of Pope Francis' recent comments that those who refused to get the Covid 'vaxx' is tantamount to quasi-suicide, here are my thoughts in his previous exhortation on this controversial topic from two...