The Hundred Year War on the Family
Mere days after Our Lady’s final apparition at Fatima on October 13, 1917, the Bolsheviks took power over Russia and quickly established a totalitarian...
Argumentative Starting Points
Jesus provides us with a motive for acting, viz., the love of God, which in practical terms produces a love of our neighbours. The...
Our Wedding Garment
"My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?”
(Matthew 22:12)
I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down...
Sainte Marguerite D’Youville: A Poetic Retrospective
Sainte Marguerite D'Youville (1701-1771. Feast, October 16th)
I have to laugh when they call me a dangerous woman;
A woman of ill-repute; a drunken whore.
It’s true that...
How to Destroy the Family in Six Easy Lessons: The Beelzebul Method
I am known by many names like Beelzebul, Mephistopheles, or Satan. When I was created, God called me Lucifer, but I prefer--Prince of Darkness....
Charles Rice on Natural Law Morality
Charles E. Rice (1931-2015), a Thomist philosopher and professor of law at Notre Dame University, was a consistent conservative on matters political and theological....
Ode to the dishwasher
(On this Thanksgiving morning, you might enjoy this wonderful poem from a Canadian mother, on the philosophy, nay, the very theology, of washing dishes,...
The Question of ‘Bioethics’
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” – Supreme Court decision Buck vs. Bell
Carrie Buck was 17 when she was forced to enter the Virginia...
The Christian and Depression
I strongly encourage anyone who is discouraged or depressed to read the third chapter of the book of Tobit. In this passage, two people...
The True Beauty of Woman
I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. (Genesis 3:16)
Ironically, although technological advances have made it possible for...