Systemic Blindness

How can you fight something you cannot see properly?—An Officer in Training with Canadian Armed Forces  As Canada languishes in this protracted period of medical...

The Glory of the Past, the Narrowness of a Future Without It

The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past....

Sixteenth Sunday: Persevering in Faith in the Face of Evil

The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man; the field is the world, and the good seed are the children...

Wheat and Tares

“Heaven” should not be understood only in the sense that it towers above us, because this infinite space also takes the form of human...

To Mask or Not to Mask? That is the Question

One of the primary tasks of a free citizenry is to resist encroaching tyranny – even of the ‘soft’ variety - for once we’ve...

The Revolution, the Tricoleur, and the Tricoteuse 2.0:

(On this anniversary of the beginning of the French Revolution, July 14, 2020, I thought this article from our archives from the fiery pen...

The Precipitous Prelate and the Prudential Pope

Newton’s Third Law has many applications, as does Hegel’s dialectic of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, in that eternal struggle of the World Spirit – even in the...

Saint Henry, King and Emperor

Today we remember Saint Henry, Emperor of the Romans and King of the Italians, the last of the 'Ottonian' line - deriving from the...

Fifteenth Sunday: Applying the Parables

Then the disciples came and asked Jesus, ‘Why do you speak to them in parables?’ He answered, ‘To you it has been given to...

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...