Tuesday, November 18, 2025

A Few More Good (Gentle) Men

I was in the Niagara region for a wedding last weekend, and, cycling around, I came across this statue of George VI overlooking the...

The Sacramental Life

Catholics are called to live a sacramental life, which means seeing everything as a sign, in its own way pointing to God, Who made...

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...

Saint James and the Reconquista

Before we leave Saint James the Greater and polygamy behind for now, two further factoids that came across my attention:  It seems the Mormons...