The Echo of Glencoe
On the way to the Highlands, about thirty or so miles north of Dumbarton, one passes through a valley of sombre beauty and history,...
Kavanaugh’s Inquisition
One knows not what to say at times, as events spiral faster than one’s capacity to comment on them; even one’s reflection is superseded:...
Fra Juan’s Canticle of Light and Darkness
The Carmelite Order traces its spiritual roots back to the prophet Elijah, but its practical foundation was in the twelfth century, round about the...
The Evil Behind a Boondoggle Budget
The most apt adjective to describe the Liberal ‘budget’ – and I use that term advisedly - is meretricious, a term that means doing...
Canterbury’s Augustine
As providence would have it, on this memorial of Saint Augustine of Canterbury – the ‘other’ Saint Augustine – who evangelized and solidified the...
Bonaventure the Beloved
Saint Bonaventure, whom we celebrate today, the day of his death in 1274 - a few months after his contemporary, Saint Thomas Aquinas. Both...
A Philosophical Habit of Mind
On a more positive note on how universities may best fulfill what they were originally founded to do, please do feel free to peruse...
People’s Republic of Insanity
Dr. Don DeMarco, a Canadian, conservative, orthodox philosophy professor - a rare bird - has penned an all-too-real description of the state of Canada...
Vanier’s Legacy
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum dicendum est – speak nothing but good of the dead, first attributed to Chilon of Sparta in Greek, we...
