Rush, Entropy…And Electric Barchettas?
Canada, and various jurisdictions in Europe and the U.S., plan to make gasoline-powered vehicles, at least of the personal variety, more or less illegal....
Adam, Eve, Christ and Mary
Christmas Eve is the traditional feast of Adam and Eve, our primordial parents, considered saints in the Church, brought to heaven on the first...
Thoughts on Father Pavone
What is one to say about the laicization of Father Frank Pavone? (so we will refer to him, even in a posteriori sense, for...
On the Beach, With Benedict and Hope
Pope Benedict XVI, in his second encyclical, the 2008 Spe Salvi (Salvific Hope) offers a distinction from the Letter to the Hebrews: We as...
Obsessed with Death
In his 1987 novel, The Thanatos Syndrome, physician-turned-author Walker Percy imagines a town whose inhabitants are reverting to simianism, that is, becoming more ape-like,...
History is Christological, Mariological – and Josephological
A fruitful read by Peter Leithart: Man's Marian Future. And not only is our future Marian, but so is our past and present, but...
Beauty and the Beast-ly
The author asks, Why is Everything So Ugly?, and his answer is an intriguing reflection on the lack of beauty in modern New York....
The Holy House of Loreto
The memorial of Lady of Loreto was put back into the universal calendar, on this day by Pope Francis three years ago, in December,...
Saint Bernard’s Three Advents
In one of his sermons, the Cistercian abbot, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (+1090) distinguishes three Advents of Christ: The first, at Christmas, when He...
The Fall of Malta? But Not of Vella
We need more leaders like George Vella, current president of Malta. The small jewel of an island nation, in the middle of the Mediterranean,...