Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Seals and Crofts versus Roe versus Wade

In light of the hopeful repeal of the disastrous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion - or, more properly, making the illegalization 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...

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 Scottish Brogue Wins Many Merry Souls

Someone - ironically, a good friend with a pronounced British accent - sent me this tongue-in-cheek article from the Babylon Bee: Study Finds Preaching...

A Take on the Tragic Fruits of Fiducia Supplicans

So the DDF – the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the CDF, and before that, the SCDF, the ‘S’ standing for...

Saint Richard of Sussex

Saint Richard of Chichester (+1253) was a mediaeval bishop in Sussex - now the patron saint of that bucolic region in the south of...

Revolution, Paris and the Olympics

The French Revolution casts a long shadow. It seems the generational guilt in casting off the 'shackles' of the Church, which entailed also the...

Ricci and Lucia

On this February 13th we commemorate the mystic Dominican tertiary Saint Catherine Ricci (1522 – 1590), a contemporary of Saint Philip Neri (+1515 -1595), to whom...

The Immortal Mind: A Review

The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon's Case for the Existence of the Soul by Michael Egnor and Denyse O'Leary Worthy Publishers, New York, Nashville, June 2025 237 p. The...

Cough Syrup

It was coming up to Christmas and I was sitting in the living room looking at the Christmas tree, deciding whether to light a...