Kavanaugh: Bork or Kennedy?
As the United States mid-term elections loom, peruse Carl Sundell’s take on Robert Bork, who went through his own gruelling Kavanaugh-esdque process three decades...
Robert Bork on Slouching towards Gomorrah
Robert Heron Bork (1927 –2012) was a judge and law professor who was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court in 1987....
The State as Corrupting
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” ― Leo Tolstoy
If you peruse the Showbiz section of any...
Four Saints in a Day
We celebrate a veritable panoply of saints today: In Canada, we have the memorial of Saint Marguerite D’Youville (+1771), who married young to a...
Mulling over Merton
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk, theologian, poet, mystic, and the author of more than seventy books. Having lost both parents by the...
Hurricanes, Stocks and Good Pope John
The weather and the economy are both volatile, of late, with the aptly-named Hurricane Michael (‘who is like God’) smashing into the Florida panhandle, the...
Thanking Freedom and Three Saints
I hope that all our readers had a delightful Thanksgiving weekend, a secular holiday, one may think, but as Christians we are called to...
Killing Sick Kids
And so, following upon my comments yesterday on the mask slipping off the face of evil, it begins: A trio of physicians – oh, why...
Healing the Wound of Abortion
On a late winter’s evening, my mother left her body like a discarded nightgown on an unmade bed. I was sitting by the window...
Pro-Life Self-Defence
Troubling news from the pro-life front, as a demonstrator, Marie-Claire Bissonnette, (an alumna of Seat of Wisdom where I teach) was physically attacked (round-house...