The Poison Pen of Christopher Hitchens
Someone will protest: âWhy are you writing a piece on the atheist Christopher Hitchens? He's dead, and isn't he yesterday's news?â But this is...
Starved for God
And the Lord spoke all these words:
I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the...
The Good Shepherd, Who Never Leaves His Flock
Has any one of you ever been a shepherd? or even seen one? Do shepherds exist in contemporary North America? Nevertheless, we know instinctively...
The Case Against Abortion
(In light of today's commemoration of Saint Margaret of Castello, patroness of the unborn, and of Arizona's recent instantiation of pro-life laws protecting the...
Catholic Glasgow
On an intersection in Scotlandâs largest city, at Glasgow Cross, the Jesuit priest Saint John Ogilvie, after brutal tortures by the âKingâs Menâ in...
The Faceless Niqab
The recent ban in the province of Quebec on the niqab, the Islamic face-covering, when receiving 'public services' (reserved, of course, only for females)...
Magisterial Clarity and Ambiguity
There is an old saying that the three rules of real estate are âlocation, location, locationâ. A similar rule applies to public speaking: âbrevity,...
Malcolm Muggeridge: Godly Gadfly
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) like so many great Catholic converts of the 20th century experienced a fascinating pilgrimage from agnostic Communist sympathizer in his youth...
The Relevance of the Church and Catholic Disinformation
The following comments come from a conversation I had with Catholic friends. The brief reflection that follows gives, what I believe, some of the...
A Heritage Lost? Jean Langlais and Post-Conciliar Sacred Music
Catholics have sung our praise to God for the entirety of the Churchâs history. For at least a thousand years, Gregorian chant formed the...
