Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The Pope, Pharma, and Moral Imperatives

What’s the difference between God and a doctor? God doesn’t think He’s a doctor. That used to be funny… God, of course, knows medicine, having made...

Trudeau Ups the Ante, and a Reasoned Defense for those Resisting

In a recent television interview in Quebec, conducted en francais, Justin Trudeau said: We are going to end this pandemic by proceeding with the vaccination… We all...

The Sun Setteth on Quebec

It's been too debilitating to write on the situation in Quebec, with churches closed over Christmas, and the bishops raising no protest, with the...

A Primer on Christology, Via the Heresies That Had to Be

In light of this festive season, in which we celebrate the manifestation of the Messiah in His birth at Bethlehem - and also, perhaps,...

But Your Grace: Christ Is a Sacrificial Priest

A very merry Sixth Day of Christmas, when my true love game to me six geese a-layin'. And may your metaphorical geese lay many...

Quebec: The End, or the Beginning, of the Quiet Revolution?

O, how the mighty have fallen! Such was the lament over King Saul, who began with great promise, head and shoulders above the rest...

Amoris, Traditionis and the Dubia

What is one to say, that has not already been said, of the December 18th response to the eleven dubia, raised in light of...

Lawyers, Physicians, and Some Common Sense….Please

The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided to support New York's vaccine mandate in a 6 - 3 decision. More specifically, they declined to permit...

A Death Race to the Bottom, or the Top?

Death Race 2000 – a 1975 dystopian thriller, with a tinge of what might pass for humour – takes place in a totalitarian America...

Mary, Conceived Without Sin

Que soy era immaculada Concepciou - I am the Immaculate Conception These are the words with which Our Lady replied to Saint Bernadette Sobirous, in...