Monday, November 24, 2025

Holy Day, Holy Union

I don't know about you, but I must admit to feeling a mixture of excitement and dread every time Christmas comes around. With shopping...

Prodigal Catholics – Why They Leave, and Why They Return

A Pew Research Center poll indicated one out of every ten Americans is an ex-Catholic. Add them up as if they were a church...

ISIS and Passion Sunday

ISIS attacked again yesterday, their favorite target, apparently, Christians, this time worshiping Coptics participating in Palm Sunday Mass.  Forty seven were killed in the...

Dissolution of a Nation

Citing “the public interest in the administration of justice”, the law society claims that the personal views and preferences of an “overwhelming majority” of...

Should We Care About Pride?

This is a question that I find myself pondering with some regularity, but for the last few years during the month of June –...

Candlemas and the Keeping of the Law

When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, Mary and Joseph brought the child Jesus up to Jerusalem to...

Mozart’s Et Incarnatus Est

Mozart's Great Mass in C Major, the 'Coronation Mass', Krönungsmesse - so called since it was a favorite of the imperial court, performed often...

For the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek’s Mission: A Spiritual Reflection

     Enterprise, what a God-haunted mission you are on. All around you there is light, star-shot and splintered in the endless skies through which you...

Poland Needs Gietrzwald

(Today, May 3rd, in Poland marks the great solemnity of Mary, Queen of Poland. Hence, this reflection by Paul Suski commemorating one of the...

God or King?

I have this theory, and history attestst to its veracity, that people are by nature monarchists.  Oh, we may give lip service to republicanism...