Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Weirdness of Vegas and Wildness of Catalonia

Something is definitely odd about the gunman and the shooting massacre in Vegas:Ā  A 64 year-old multi-millionaire accountant with no military training, no record,...

Hollywood’s Sense of Sin

In a radio address on October 26, 1946, with the horrors of World War II still fresh (if such be the term) in the...

Trying to Build Your Own Do-It-Yourself Magisterium

It's kind of sad to read Gerald McDermott's lamentĀ on the state of modern Anglicanism, striving to find a locus veritatis - a place wherein...

Blessed Blondin and Bureaucracy

Bd. Marie-Anne Blondin (+1890), whose feast was just the other day, and of whom you may never have heard, founded a religious congregation of...

Of Euthanasia and Martrydom

*I have an article just published this morning in Crisis magazine (crisismagazine.com), which you can find here. Ā I will post it here after a...

Brexit, the Faith and Europe

Britain is voting as I write on whether or not to stay within the 'European Union', with pundits widely divided on the effects of...

Conservative, Liberal, Vive la Difference?

I have an article on the 'requirements for political office, posted thisĀ  morning on Crisis magazine.Ā  Again, feel free to peruse, and I will...

Conservatives, Big and Small

One can get the measure of a man not from his guarded, careful behaviour, but rather from his occasional slip-up, his less careful moments,...

Catholic Glasgow

On an intersection in Scotland’s largest city, at Glasgow Cross, the Jesuit priest Saint John Ogilvie, after brutal tortures by the ā€˜King’s Men’ in...