Of Saint Thomas’ Death and Voting
Saint Thomas Aquinas died on this day, March 7, 1274, at the Cistercian monastery of Fossanuova in Italy, between Naples and Rome (where there...
Justin the Martyr
Saint Justin, who is called the 'martyr', was a pagan convert to Christianity, based in large part upon his investigation of the rational arguments...
Scandals, Kolbe and Mary
I am here at the Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome, waiting for my (delayed) flight back to Toronto and, well, back to life...
Saint John Paul II at 40
Today we commemorate Pope Saint John Paul II, for this day chosen as his ‘feast’ marks the 40 anniversary of his coronation as the...
Promethean Pelagius
Before we leave 2018 behind, we should mark the 1600th anniversary of the official condemnation, of the heresy of Pelagius, in 418 A.D. by Pope...
The Night that Life went down to Georgia
Georgia’s Senate has just passed HB 481, the Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, which would make it illegal to abort – murder –...
An Irish Monk in Scotland
If it 'twere not Pentecost Sunday - the second highest liturgical celebration in the Church's calendar (see Pater Ignotus' reflection), and a blessed one...
The Evisceration of John Paul II?
The plot of this Pontificate thickens, as news of the summary and forthwith firing of two pillars of the Pope John Paul II Institute...
Despair, Hope and the Rosary
In honour of the Blessed Virgin, we might peruse Pope Saint John Paul II's encyclical on the Rosary, Rosarium Virginis Mariae, which he promulgated...
Andrew’s Shame and Main Chance
To paraphrase Richard Weaver’s dictum about ideas, sin too has consequences, some of them abrupt and awful, such as murder and suicide; while the...
