Sunday, December 28, 2025

Potty Mouth: A Reflection on ‘Swearing’

I have been asked to write about what is euphemistically, and rather incorrectly, known as 'swearing'.  We have all perhaps heard our younger siblings...

The Trudeau-Biden Trouble With Truth

“What is truth?” The famous question posed by Pontius Pilate to Jesus is operative in a unique way during Lent. It carries obvious relevance insofar...

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...

Moving Through the Readings and Finding One’s Path

It must be admitted that sermons can be awfully boring. I know that my heart sinks when I hear a priest begin, “In the...

The Re-Consecration of England Through Our Lady of Walsingham

Tomorrow, March 29th, in the year of Our Lord 2020, five centuries after the beginning of what is known as the 'Protestant Reformation', England...

Women and the State

Yet another female premier has been ousted from office after a single term. Is it too impolite, not to say politically incorrect, to ask...

The True Beauty of Liturgical Music

The tragic loss of beauty in liturgy we should not dismiss lightly, for if there is one thing we can glean from Scripture, and from...

Lingua Apocalyptica

The biblical texts used at Mass towards the end of the liturgical year are certainly dramatic—with stars falling from heaven and the like—and, it...

No Stone Left Unturned: Thoughts on Ravi Zacharias’s Mission

On May 19, Ravi Zacharias died at his home in Atlanta from a rare cancer known as sarcoma which was found as a malignant...

Finding Our Way: Mass Ad Orientem, Towards Our Saviour

Have you ever been really lost? Lost to the point of having no clue which direction you needed to go? What would you do...