‘Our Lady of Public Health’
On this feast of Saint Luke, physician and healer, it is a propos that we post a link to a series of insightful and...
Let’s Be Clear: IVF is Intrinsically Evil
IVF, like its inverted cousin, contraception, is a flash point between Catholics and Protestants - and even amongst Catholics themselves - witness Mr. Biden's...
Public versus Private: A Response to Dr. Catherine Pakaluk
Catherine Pakaluk, a professor at Catholic University of America, in a recent article over at First Things, seems to opine that no one should...
Cardinal Cupich’s Processions
Cardinal Blaise Cupich of Chicago has just released another directive for his diocese, discouraging Catholics from kneeling to receive Holy Communion.
Before we get to...
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...
Whose Land Is It, After All?
The difficulty with apologies is that at some point someone’s going to take you at your word. If we claim that we’re living on...
The duty to defend
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!’’ But it’s “Saviour of ’is country,’’ when the guns begin to...
Nine challenges for the next papacy
As I write this column, Pope Benedict is about to conclude his pontificate, the conclave is about to begin, and critics of the Church...
Terrorism in France: The Enemy in their Midst
The massacre in Paris yesterday marks the beginning, we may presume, of other tragedies to come. Well over one hundred dead, hundreds more injured,...
Saint Philip and Witnessing for Life
Today is the feast of Saint Philip Neri (+1595), the second Apostle of Rome, and the founder of the Oratory, whose houses are now...
