Tuesday, January 13, 2026

The Gnostic Roots of Transgenderism

Ideas have consequences, and few more dire than the idea of that one can transition one’s gender. The notion that our bodies may be...

Dancing Away the Darkness

Saint Francis de Sales once quipped, if my fallible memory serves, that dances were a lot like mushrooms: Even the best weren't worth that...

Saint Patrick and His Emerald Isle

A very happy Saint Patrick’s Day, to all our readers, and we extend that to all who are of Irish lineage, or those who...

Saints Agapitus and Helena

Saint Agapitus, an early Roman martyr (+274) was from the ancient family of Palestrina, from which, 1300 years later, would derive one of the...

Forgiveness and Reconciliation, Without Repentance?

Can we forgive someone who doesn’t accept our forgiveness? Or someone who doesn’t think he needs it? There was a group of us discussing...

Popes and Martyrs, Marriage and Montanism

Today’s commemoration of saints are all connected with the persecution The first group suffered under the Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius in the mid-2nd century,...

The Surreality of Reality

Things are surreal, and getting more so by the minute - or so it goes. In the first minute or so of his interview...

A Day to Truly Honour Women

March 8th is International Women’s Day – which I am at least glad to read they have not (yet?) modified to ‘Womxn’s’ Day – is...

The Necessity of An ‘Ordo Amoris’

The notion of the ‘ordo amoris’ – the ‘order of love’ - has generated some debate of late, not least since some big names...

Fairy tales

I deny that biology can destroy the sense of truth, which alone can even desire biology. - G. K. Chesterton, The Long Bow "Papa, tell...