Ad Multos Annos, Father Alphonse de Valk, Fifty Years a Priest.
It is fitting on this feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of life, that we offer a hearty and warm congratulations to Father...
The Seven Penitential Psalms
When you are old—as I am—a single word or event can release a flood of memories. That happened to me when I noticed that...
Ça va bien aller: Will All Indeed Be Well?
The following reflection from contributor Father Tim McCauley offers a perspective on the financial impact of the lockdowns, in our current times of controversy....
Eucharist: To Believe, or not to Believe?
Nineteenth Sunday Per Annum (C) August 11, 2019.
‘Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the...
Belloc’s Tarantella – and as Sung by Old Thunder Himself
Tarantella by Hilaire Belloc
Do you remember an Inn,
Miranda?
Do you remember an Inn?
And the tedding and the spreading
Of the straw for a bedding,
And the fleas...
Credo in Unum et Trium Deum
Two creeds are in common use among us: the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed, which we use on liturgical occasions, and is a...
Hollywood’s Sense of Sin
In a radio address on October 26, 1946, with the horrors of World War II still fresh (if such be the term) in the...
Our Lady’s Assumption
A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun,and the moon beneath her feet, and on her head a crown of...
The Roots of Eco-Socialism
Interesting, is it not, how – as the climate change hoax continues to advance itself with a wall of lies and half truths –...
From Marx to Gaia
People who are not governed by God
Will be ruled by tyranny.
William Penn
What an extraordinary convergence of events. As the Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky lay...





















