St. Patrick’s Fire
In our culture, the closest thing we have to a state religion is the worship of scientific knowledge, which is really just the worship...
The Church and China
It was a dramatic scene: venerable Cardinal Zen, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, a lifelong foe and survivor of Communism in China, a spiritual...
Freedom
Hence the domestic household is antecedent, as well in idea as in fact, to the gathering of men into a community. - Pope Pius...
Placating Tyrants and Playing Catch up with the Culture of Death
From Justin Trudeau’s eyebrow apparently falling off during a press scrum (apparently it may have been an optical illusion), to his tiff with President...
Canadian errant
David Warren, former editor of the Idler and columnist for the Ottawa Citizen, now writes an “anti-blog” entitled Essays in Idleness at davidwarrenonline.com. He was born...
Proclaim the truth
"Children are a grace that is given to a couple. ... We need signs among us that when we put God first, others second,...
Rebuilding Catholic culture
This summer, Saskatoon hosted the first ever Rebuilding Catholic Culture Conference on 19 and 20 July. Keynote speakers were Catholic biographer Joseph Pearce and...
Food for thought
The Incarnation was made present to the world through Mary. On Christmas, Mary placed Our Lord in an animal feed trough, where he was...
All twelve days
“Therefore your end is on you,
Is on you and your kings,
Not for a fire in Ely fen,
Not that your gods are nine or ten,
But...
Saint James and the Reconquista
Before we leave Saint James the Greater and polygamy behind for now, two further factoids that came across my attention: It seems the Mormons...