Mary’s Fiat
A blessed solemnity of the Annunciation, to all our readers! This feast commemorates the conception of the Son of God in the womb of...
Dumbed Down and Drugged Up
Intelligence is a difficult thing to define, never mind measure. But we can gain some idea of what 'intelligence' implies - knowledge of fundamental...
Saint Patrick and His Emerald Isle
A very happy Saint Patrick’s Day, to all our readers, and we extend that to all who are of Irish lineage, or those who...
The Tremendous Work of Clement Mary Hofbauer
The tumultuous life of Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer (1751 - 1820) proves what the devil once admitted to the Cure d'Ars, that if there...
Four Spaniards and a Saint?
On March 12th, 1622, Pope Gregory canonized Philip Neri, along with Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Avila and Isidore the Farmer - or,...
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...
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...