Saturday, December 20, 2025

Moral Meltdown: A Magisterial View of the Morality of Embryo Adoption

Perusing the website of Snowflakes, an American adoption agency, the viewer is presented with myriad photos of respectable, young-to-middle-aged couples radiantly embracing beautiful, healthy,...

Three Reasons to Read the Book of Jonah this Lent

Every year, the Wednesday after Ash Wednesday, the Mass readings revolve around the prophet Jonah. Not only does the first reading come from the...

The Holy Mass Part I: A Reflection on the Traditional Mass

Fifteenth Sunday Per Annum (B)                                                 ...

Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power

(I thought a re-post of these thoughts from nearly five years ago now (!) was a propos, given our current Alice-in-Wonderland-cum-1984 world, making our...

Laying Heavy Burdens of Carbon

John Robson is right, when he decries the hypocrisy of Prime Minister Trudeau and his entourage of 225 ‘delegates’ to the ‘climate change’ conference...

Christ, the Light of the World

On entering the house, they saw the Child with Mary his Mother; and they knelt down and paid Him homage. Then, opening their treasure...

That All May Be One

“I pray that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also...

A Catholic Scientist Champions the Shroud of Turin

The 'Shroud of Turin', widely held as the very burial sheet of Our Lord, imprinted miraculously with the image of His own body, will...

Pope Benedict and the Curé d’Ars

(The holiness of the Church - and hence the salvation of the world - depends much upon the holiness of her priests. Hence, these...

Salvation is a Gift, to Those Who Seek It

For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save what the lost. (Lk. 19:10) ⧾ The conversion of Zacchaeus may be said...