Drifting Down the Stream

The saying has it that politics is downstream of culture, and I would only add that so is everything else. For what is a...

Dancing Away the Darkness

Saint Francis de Sales once quipped, if my fallible memory serves, that dances were a lot like mushrooms: Even the best weren't worth that...

The Fate of Unbaptized Babies: Matthew Plese…Please Distinguish

Over at OnePeterFive, columnist Matthew Plese, who, according to his by-line, is a Third Order Dominican and an official catechist, claims as Church dogma...

Deep Fakes, Deep Lies

Imagine seeing yourself on a video doing and saying things - especially scandalous things - you never did. At least, you cannot recall them,...

The Wonders of Webb

The James Webb telescope is a technological wonder, which allows us to peer every farther and more fully into the even greater marvels of...

Medicos Ad Inferos

Here in Canada we've gone from offering 'medical assistance in dying' to those on the point of death - in articulo mortis, as we...

Billionaire Bill and the Woeful Wages of Mammon

Sam Kriss has an intriguing take on Bill Gates, and what being that rich - I mean, really, unimaginably rich - does to someone....

Is the SSPX Really a Refuge for Traditional Catholics?

Where do traditional Catholics go from here? Of course, all Catholics should be 'traditional', in the sense of preserving, living by and handing on...

Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes

No Pope is impeccable, even if, by virtue of their office, they are at times infallible – or, more precisely, a few of their...