What Choice on Election Day?

It's election day here in Canada, even if we don't have much of a choice. We have Mark Carney, about whom Scott Ventureyra wrote...

Saints Peter Chanel and Louis Grignon de Montfort

On this 28th of April we celebrate two Saints: Saint Peter Chanel (+1841) who evangelized the island of Futuna in the South Pacific - the...

Popes and Martyrs, Marriage and Montanism

Today’s commemoration of saints are all connected with the persecution The first group suffered under the Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius in the mid-2nd century,...

Is the SSPX in Full Communion? A Reply to Timothy Flanders

Over at OnePeterFive, editor T.S. Flanders urges us all to charity and not to 'excommunicate' each other (perhaps we might say 'shun'). It's a...

The Hidden Grateful Holiness of Margaret of Castello

Margaret of Castello (+1287 - 1320) is the patroness of the unborn, the disabled, the blind, for she herself was 'disabled', even if she...

Elon’s Efficiency, Algocracy and God’s Munificence

Efficiency is not in itself a virtue. It may sometimes help towards virtue, but in much of life, it is not efficiency that is...

Saints Sabbas and Julius: Contra Paganism, Pro Homoousios

There are two saints commemorated on this April 12th. The first is Saint Sabbas the Goth (+372), a sort of ‘village fool’, but the...

Jurassic Wolf

Well, they've finally done it. Readers of a certain vintage may recall seeing Jurassic Park in full theatre mode, and being blown away by...

A Second Reply to Dr. Elizabeth Rex: IVF and ET Are Still Immoral

(Bioethicist Dr. Elizabeth Rex has responded to my initial response, and the reader may find such on LifeSite. You can read the debate here....

Saint Benjamin and Blessed Jane of Toulouse: Of Persians and Carmelites

On this last day of March, as this year we approach the final two weeks of Lent before Holy Week, we commemorate two little...