Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Saint Paschal Baylon’s Humility and Joy

The life of Paschal Baylon (1540 - 1592) has much in common with that of his fellow Franciscan, Joseph of Cupertino (+1633). They were...

Is That the Sound of Crunchy Crickets?

As the title of this thread has it, they're starting to slip the bugs in. No, no, not computer bugs, which have been around...

Thoughts on Father Pavone

What is one to say about the laicization of Father Frank Pavone? (so we will refer to him, even in a posteriori sense, for...

Saint Pachomius the Great

The great desert Father, and founder of cenobitic monasticism, Saint Pachomius, died on this 9th day of May in 348 A.D., eight years before...

Saint Ignatius of Antioch, God’s Ground Wheat

Saint Ignatius of Antioch (+107) joyfully ‘went to the lions’, as the saying goes, meeting his martyrdom in the arena of the Coliseum in...

Entropy and the Last Word

When Sadi Carnot formulated the Second Law of Thermodynamics in the early 19th century, a law also known as the law of entropy, people...

All For Katy’s Wedding

On this day in 1525, Martin Luther married Katherine von Bora. Luther was – ontologically speaking – still a priest, a member of the...

Christmas and the Mysterium Iniquitatis

There will be some empty chairs around the Christmas table this year, after a Saudi psychiatrist, Tabel Al-Abdulmohesn, plowed his BMW into a Christmas...

Elon’s Efficiency, Algocracy and God’s Munificence

Efficiency is not in itself a virtue. It may sometimes help towards virtue, but in much of life, it is not efficiency that is...

Francis, Leo and ‘Climate Change’

We’ve written before of the story that Pope Pius XII wanted to use the theory of the ‘Big Bang’ – first proposed by the...