15 Minute Cities – Utopian Villages, or Dystopic Hells?
There's much ado of late on '15 minute cities', (FMCs - like everything else now, they have their own acronym) a proposed redesigning of...
The Almost-Youngest Saint, Dominic Savio
Dominic Savio died on March 9th, 1857, at the age of 14, his last words, 'what beautiful things I see...! When he was declared...
Cheating Chat-GPT
In 1950, Alan Turing - one of the inventors of the modern computer, and fresh from helping win the war by designing it to...
The Rise – and Fall? – of the Nones
He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.
"When the unclean spirit has gone out...
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...
Benedict’s Legacy
(This was posted four years ago, but the few thoughts therein still seem relevant...)
It was six years ago today that Pope Emeritus Benedict’s resignation...
A Sombre Anniversary
As we commemorate this day, February 24th, the official beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, we should all be praying for some sort a...
A New Archbishop for Toronto
Pope Francis has appointed a new archbishop for Toronto, Auxiliary Bishop Frank Leo, after accepting the resignation of Thomas Cardinal Collins (Bishops are required...
Benedict XV’s War and Peace
There is a fin de siècle feel in the air, akin to what people must have felt in 1914 on eve of the Great...
Salvifici Doloris: Hope and Joy in Suffering
On the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, back in 1984, Pope Saint John Paul II promulgated an Apostolic Letter on the mystery of...