Pope Benedict’s Resignation, Ten Years On…
Today marks another sombre anniversary - it was ten years ago, on the last day of February, that Pope Benedict XVI officially resigned the...
Borden’s Burdensome Tax
On this day, in 1917, Prime Minister Robert Borden - whose mustachioed visage is on the $100 bill - imposed an income tax on...
The SSPX, the Papacy, and the Current Status
We may sympathize with the SSPX, for who would not seek to flee the mediocrity, if not outright mayhem, all too frequently found in...
Nae Country Fer Young Men
As readers may know, Scotland is the land of my birth and early upbringing, and I have been back a number of times to...
Trois Jours au QuĂ©bec – Three Days in Quebec
Quebec is a paradox, much like France, whose offshoot she is. So Catholic on the outside: majestic churches towering over the countryside and cities,...
Ricci and Lucia
On this February 13th we commemorate the mystic Dominican tertiary Saint Catherine Ricci (1522 – 1590), a contemporary of Saint Philip Neri (+1515 -1595), to whom...
The Immortal Mind: A Review
The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon's Case for the Existence of the Soul
by Michael Egnor and Denyse O'Leary
Worthy Publishers, New York, Nashville, June 2025
237 p.
The...
No gold medal for truth and justice
The Olympics are over, so a tale of two athletes. In 2011 America’s most successful gymnast, Peter Vidmar, a man who had won more...
Feminine Genius
The call-in show a week or two ago on the CBC, as I enjoyed my very first kefir smoothie (quite enjoyable, in fact, made...
Of Muslim Mayors, Fire and Brimstone
By the time you read this, London (the one in England) will have elected a new mayor. The residents did not have much of...
