Catherine’s Pure Philosophy
In one of those ironies of God's history - choosing what seems weak to confound the apparently strong - the patron saint of philosophers...
The Muddled Metaphysics of Darwin
(Today, August 20th, marks the anniversary of the publication Darwin's Origin of Species, in 1858, whose full title includes also "by Means of Natural...
Saint Joseph, A Working Man
(A reprise of an article I published last year on this memorial of the great Saint Joseph...)
Saint Joseph has two 'feast' days in the...
The Fourth of July: Pier Giorgio and Elizabeth of Portugal
A joyous Independence Day to all our American readers. There are any number of factions developing in the once-United States, but all can be...
Truthful Repentance
Our Lady of Sorrows is a fitting memorial at this time in the Churchâs history which, to put things in rather banal terms, is...
Christus Vincit in Veritate
A blessed and joyous solemnity of Christ the King to all our readers, a feast first put in the calendar in 1925 by Pope...
Thomas’ Enduring Legacy
Today is the anniversary of the death of Saint Thomas Aquinas. In March of 1274, he fell ill on his way to the second Council...
Choosing Life and Death
In a tragic parody of Mosesâ exhortation to choose the way of life and the way of death, a Malaysian girl, standing atop a...
The Patronage of Saints
When the Church canonizes some of her faithful as âsaintsâ, she is declaring that they lived a Christian life more perfectly, practising charity in...
9 11 and Historical Memory
It is difficult to believe that it was a full eighteen years ago I first heard of the attack â initially reported as a...
