Am I not your Mother?
On a rather chilly morning on a hillside outside what is now Mexico City, in the year of our Lord 1531, while the Protestant âReformationâ was...
The Liberal Gong Show
The Gong Show - from which we derive the term 'a gong show', sometimes morphed into a more scatological form, which may apply more...
Dear, Old South Side Hill
The fondest thoughts of childhoodâs day twine âround thee, dear old hill,
And as I gaze, thy bare, bleak braes with love my bosom thrill;
For...
Two Martyrs for One: Blaise and Ansgar
Saint Blaise, a bishop of ancient Sebastea (now in Turkey), was also a physician, like Saint Luke, a healer of body and soul. And,...
Conservative, Liberal, Vive la Difference?
I have an article on the 'requirements for political office, posted this morning on Crisis magazine. Again, feel free to peruse, and I will...
Benedict XV’s War and Peace
There is a fin de siècle feel in the air, akin to what people must have felt in 1914 on eve of the Great...
Saint Patrick’s Emerald Hope
(Here is a re-posting of some thoughts on Saint Patrick's Day. Much has happened since then, and this will be a muted celebration, with...
The Message of Mary
A blessed and joyful solemnity of the Assumption, the greatest of the feasts of Our Lady, commemorating her entrance into heaven, body and soul,...
Saint William of Monte Vergine
William of Vercelli (1085 -1142) was a tenth-century hermit, and almost-accidental founder of an Order, the Congregation of Monte Vergine, also called the âWilliamitesâ....
CRISPR Children, Edited
You may have heard of CRISPR babies, which may phonically sound rather macabre, but the acronym stands for the rather prosaic Clustered Regularly Interspaced...
