Conservative Prudence?
I received a rather critical email in response to my last post on the Conservative capitulation, so thought I should clarify my, and hopefully...
An Encounter with Gene Roddenberry: The Traveling Troubadour Meets the Great Bird of the...
There were many adventures to be had as a āTraveling Troubadourā. Hailing from Fort Lee, New Jersey (known as āThe Silent Motion Picture Capital...
Back to Tradition
Once I gave a talk on Saint Andrew. It was in Kenaston, Saskatchewan, in a church dedicated to Saint Andrew. At the end of...
Against the Smears: In Defence of Charlie Kirkās Legacy
Charlie Kirkās assassination on September 10, 2025, shook the conscience of the world. A young man, killed in broad daylight, was a campus speaker...
Almsgiving in the Twenty-first Century
āGrace builds on nature.ā (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
This statement from Saint Thomasās Summa expresses in succinct form the theological insight that creation and redemption are...
Final Results from a Pro-Life Petition to Amend the Criminal Code of Canada
Five years ago Mr. Janusz Szepietowski, a former solidarity activist unjustly imprisoned under the 1981 Martial Law in Communist Poland, proposed to me to...
The Nativity Fast in the āAdventā of the East
(On this memorial of the Eastern saint, John of Damascus, here is a reflection worth pondering on the ascetical practices of the Eastern rite....
The Shadow State and the Rule of Law
Donald Trump and his team are complaining of being stymied in his presidential efforts, to which I will return in a moment. Ā Whatever one...
Immortal Irony
In his short story āThe Ambitious Guest,ā Nathaniel Hawthorne uses a lot of irony. A lot might actually be an understatement. The story is...
What’s Wrong with the World? Well, The Hatred of Words, and the Word
I suspect there are few people left who donāt think thereās something very wrong in the world today, whatever their political and moral leanings...
