Calvary: A Film Review
Directed by John Michael McDonagh
Written by John Michael McDonagh
In the credits at the end of Calvary (2014), interspersed among the endless lists of names, are still...
Of Popes, Potentates and Princes Royal
May 18th would have been Pope Saint John Paul II's 98th birthday, which would be old even for the oldest of Popes. Benedict, the...
Choices, Good and Bad
Today is the feast of Saint Matthias, the one chosen, as recounted in the first chapter of Acts, to replace Judas Iscariot, who betrayed...
Scandalous and Sacred Fashion
I must admit that I have trouble keeping up with the via mundi, the ways of the world, and have this abiding, if inchoate and...
The March for Life and the Contemplative Life
The annual March for Life is coming up in two days, this Thursday, May 10th, with Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral at 10:00 a.m.,...
Boy Scouts, Volcanoes and Mother of God School
A blessed Sixth Sunday of Easter, as we journey with Christ and His Apostles towards Pentecost…Veni Creator Spiritus!
It had to happen, I suppose: The...
Of Work and Communists Bearing Gifts
In his 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens, Pope John Paul II defined work as 'any activity of man', contrary to our modern notion, so immersed in...
Licking the Earth
Although they knew God they did not honour him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and...
Population Control, Royalty and Fighting the Good Fight
Paula Adamick's article on the socialist and anti-Christian philosophy behind 'Earth Day', celebrated, if such be the term, on the birthday of Lenin himself,...
Elizabeth Anscombe on Hating God
Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001) was a British analytic philosopher who early in life met and was deeply influenced by the great Austrian logician and linguist...