Virtue and Vice, and Not Everything Nice
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
What does it mean to be ‘virtuous’? There is...
The Astronomer and Physicist and Worlds Colliding
What have ancient Greek philosophy, a prophecy of Christ and Covid in common, and might this commonality be used to find common ground? Read...
Recognizing Lies and Truth
There are different ways to lie. The classical definition is ‘to enunciate a falsehood with the intent to deceive’, derived from Saint Augustine, adopted...
Remembering All the Children
There are different ways of being a hypocrite, some worse than others. There are some of us – let’s just say all of us...
Storming the Beaches for Freedom
June 6th was the 77th anniversary of the storming of Normandy, the Allied offensive on the north shore of France, taking the war to...
Sine Dominico Non Possumus
A blessed and grace-filled Solemnity of Corpus Christi! To our Canadian readers, at least, where this day is moved from its regular Thursday, recalling...
Complicit Complaisance and Flying the Rainbow
To paraphrase a popular alliterative 1958 novelty song, we are becoming a nation of pathological people pleasers – and by ‘we’ I mean those...
What Happens If the Money Runs Out?
That, dear reader, is the wrong question to ask, for money is a symbol, with no intrinsic value; hence, there no limit to how...
Mary, Mother of the Church and Our Lady of Sheshan
The Monday following Pentecost is now the memorial of 'The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church', as decreed by the Holy Father, via...
Pope John the Martyr, and Pope John Paul’s 101st Birthday
On this May 18th we celebrate the first Pontiff with the name of John, the beloved disciple - and it was his birth name....