The Rule of Law: Keeping It All From Falling Apart
The rule of law - in which each power is balanced by other powers and by other spheres of responsibility which keep it within...
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 â the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the CDF, and before that, the SCDF, the âSâ 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 â 1590), a contemporary of Saint Philip Neri (+1515 -1595), to whom...
All Roads Lead to Rome
On this feast of Saint Bridget of Sweden, one of the four co-patrons of Europe (along with Saint Benedict, Saint Catherine of Siena and...
