Politics, Piggery and Doing One’s Duty
As the midterms make clear, the U.S. continues its continental divide, between the (ironically) red Republicans and the blue Democrats, with the former under...
The Magdalene’s Marvelous Metanoia
A blessed feast of Mary Magdalene, which was raised from a memorial - set so in the revisions of 1969 - to a full...
A Few More Good (Gentle) Men
I was in the Niagara region for a wedding last weekend, and, cycling around, I came across this statue of George VI overlooking the...
Wuhan and Worthwhile Martyrs
If you'd like to pray to two patron saints, interceding for mitigation of this pandemic and, more to the point, its deleterious effects, you...
Isidore the Farmer, Rerum Novarum and Tilling the Land
Saint Isidore, or, in his native Spanish, Isidro de Merlo y Quintana, was named after the other Saint Isidore, the bishop of Seville (whom...
Work Made Light in Saint Joseph
In the waning years of the 19th century, before the war to end all wars, and the subsequent instantiation of what is called 'real...
The Catholic Origins of the Big Bang
Caeli enarrant gloriam Dei... The heavens are telling the glory of God (Ps. 19)
A recent article in OnePeterFive proposes that the Big Bang theory,...
Louis and Zelie Martin’s Ecclesia Domestica
July 12th is the day chosen as the feast of the parents of the 'Little Flower' as Louis and Zelie Martin are often known,...
Lockdowns and the Proportion of Fear
Just after Christmas, - at least they waited until after, and we must count all our blessings - Mr. Doug Ford decreed another interminable...
S.A.D.S, Bieber and the Pope
I did not know that Ray Liotta had died, in his sleep. He was in the midst of filming a new movie, and engaged...