Friday, December 5, 2025

Return of the Taliban, 2.0

What is one to say of the 'fall of Afghanistan' over the weekend, which many - myself included - predicted as soon as we...

St George, Faithful Servant of God and Invincible Martyr

On April 23rd, the universal Church celebrates with great joy the feast of St George. Besides being a saint of the early times of...

Will it be God or Mammon?

The headlines the other day declared in apocalyptic terms that one trillion dollars had gone up in smoke for the worldwide economy when Donald...

Fourth Sunday of Easter: Cultivating Catholic Culture

‘I came that they may have life and have it abundantly’ (Jn. 10:10). These few words tell us everything that we need to know about...

Canadian Pot Heads

Next spring, Trudeau, the only sitting Member of Parliament ever to admit to smoking a joint (and hence breaking the law), along with his...

15th Sunday: The call to repentance

So the twelve went out and proclaimed that all should repent. (Mk 6:13) The call to repentance is fundamental to the preaching of our Lord Jesus...

Oh, Cannabis!

On October 17, Canada will begin a new era of decadence. From that day on, cannabis – aka marijuana and pot – will be...

Henry Walpole and William Byrd

Tertullian’s oft-quoted phrase, “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church,” immediately evokes scenes of the early Christians in the Roman...

Charlie Kirk, Apologist for the Truth

I must confess that I knew almost nothing about Charlie Kirk before his death. When one of my former students – now a young...

God love you, Fulton J. Sheen

Da per matrem me venire Grant that I may come to Thee through Mary. (Motto of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen) The good people of Peoria Illinois are...