Thursday, December 25, 2025

The Quite Real Limits of Evil

(For those who prefer auditory format, we will record some of these articles as 'podcasts', and please do let us know what you think). History,...

The Holy House of Loreto

The memorial of Lady of Loreto was put back into the universal calendar, on this day by Pope Francis in December, 2019, in those...

Saint Isidore of Seville, the Internet and Industriousness

Today, April 4th is the commemoration of Saint Isidore of Seville (560-636) a bishop and doctor of the Church during a tumultuous age, when...

The Vatican, Paris and Climate Follies

The Vatican has signed on to the problematical Paris Accord on Climate Change, apparently without reservations. Here are some thoughts. We’ve written before on the...

Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne

November 18th is also the optional memorial of Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne (1769 - 1852), a native of France, but who spent much of...

Dumbed Down and Drugged Up

Intelligence is a difficult thing to define, never mind measure. But we can gain some idea of what 'intelligence' implies - knowledge of fundamental...

Churches Spared

Even the secular news had to admit that it was odd, even using the word ‘miraculous’ as this headline proclaimed, that the Catholic church...

Saint Marianne Cope of Molokai

Many of us have heard of Saint Damien of Molokai, the heroic missionary priest who gave his life working amongst the lepers in Hawaii....

The Demise, and Rise, of the ‘Book’

Here's an intriguing, and for some, disturbing, take on the publishing industry: https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books The title is a bit misleading, in a provocative way, for people are...

Our Lady of Good Remedy

On this October 8th, we commemorate Our Lady of Good Remedy, fittingly the day after Our Lady of the Rosary (also called Our Lady...