The Loss of the Empress, Stan Rogers and St. Roch’s Circumnavigation

A wee bit of Canadiana for our readers: On this day in 1914, the Scottish ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the estuary...

Massacres and the Evil One

How are we to respond to the recent massacres? The supermarket shooting just last week, and then the horrific killing of children as they...

Antichrist, Apocalypse and Abortion

Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come; therefore we know...

Victoria’s Day, Dominions and Ales

A happy Victoria Day weekend to all our readers! While this is also the memorial of the Mother of the Church, and Our Lady...

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....

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...

Les Poètes Maudits and Their Bitter Fruits

One of the fastest growing 'religious' groups in the West are the 'nones', and I put that in scare quotes, since these are those...

Propaganda, Perspicacity and Peace

Propaganda and censorship have had a bad rap, pummeled in the twentieth century almost into swear words, but in their essence and etymology, there...

Tattoo You?

(Here is a re-post of an article I wrote five or so years ago now, partly in response to Father Michael Schmitz' public declaration...

The Pope, the TLM and the Novus Ordo: Who’s Really Following Vatican II?

The Holy Father just cannot let it go: In remarks made the other day on May 7th to liturgical scholars at the Pontifical Liturgical...