Monday, November 24, 2025

Bacon, Science and Vaccine Efficacy

The proof is in the pudding, as the saying has it, which means that a recipe is only as good as its finished product....

The Tragedy, and Hope, of Ireland

Ah, the Emerald Isle, the cradle of Catholicism for the British Isles, land of heroes and martyrs, of rousing and melancholic music, of large...

Living Our Baptism

A blessed feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which in the novus ordo normally falls on a Sunday, standing for the first Sunday...

Musings on the March

The March for Life was in many ways, as always, a rousing success – thousands of zealous pro-lifers of all ages and all walks...

Trudeau’s Tinfoil Hat

One of the worst of logical fallacies - which is to say, the weakest - is the ad hominem argument. That is, instead of...

Saint Colette of Corbie

Nicole Boellet (1381 - 1447) was a miraculous birth. Her childless, elderly parents, Robert and Marguerite, prayed to Saint Nicholas that they might conceive,...

Saint William of Monte Vergine

William of Vercelli (1085 -1142) was a tenth-century hermit, and almost-accidental founder of an Order, the Congregation of Monte Vergine, also called the ‘Williamites’....

L.A.’s Inferno and Metanoia

As we pray for those affected by the Los Angeles fires - still burning and uncontained as I write - the significance of this...

What Choice on Election Day?

It's election day here in Canada, even if we don't have much of a choice. We have Mark Carney, about whom Scott Ventureyra wrote...

The Church and China

It was a dramatic scene: venerable Cardinal Zen, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, a lifelong foe and survivor of Communism in China, a spiritual...