Lockdowns and the Proportion of Fear
Just after Christmas, - at least they waited until after, and we must count all our blessings - Mr. Doug Ford decreed another interminable...
Saint Raymond, Pope Benedict and the Code of Canon Law
Today is the feast of Saint Raymond of Penyafort (1175-1275), one of the first Dominicans (officially known as the Order of Preachers) eventually becoming...
The (Non) Children of Men and the Indissoluble Nexus
It was somewhat disconcerting to discover that the 1992 novel The Children of Men by mystery writer P.D. James was set in January of...
Of Far Off Island Lees and the Lies of the Land
On this first day of January in 1739, French explorer Jean Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier discovered an island in the South Sea -...
Year of Saint Joseph: The Shadow of the Father
On this solemnity of Mary's Divine Motherhood, it's good also to be reminded of her husband's quasi-divine Fatherhood, as we begin this 'Year of...
A Happy Marian New Year!
The Church begins each new calendar year with a Marian feast, celebrating the Virgin Mary as the Mother of God, Theotokos – literally the...
Father Reginald Foster, The Vatican’s Latinist: Requiescat in Pace
Father Reginald Foster, O.C.D, died on Christmas Eve from complications arising from Covid-19. (Yes, I know - people across America are dying with bullet...
The Limits of Law and Obedience
Obedience is not necessarily a virtue. It did not excuse the Nazis at Nuremberg, who were just ‘following orders’. Just as Serviam has its exceptions and...
Saint Thomas à Becket’s 850th
A blessed continuing 'merrie Christmas!' to all our readers, as we celebrate all these twelve days, right up to the Epiphany and the Baptism...
As the Family Goes…
Today's feast of the Holy Family reminds us of the fundamental importance of this 'basic building block' of each and every society, not just...