Apologia Pro Verba Mea
A reader, in response to my recent and all-too-brief musings on Dr. Theresa Tam, vaccines, masks, lockdowns and such, wrote the following:
That was on...
Hope and History, Hope in God
I chanced upon a slim volume this year, by an author whom I greatly admire, Thomist philosopher Josef Pieper. In the midst of what...
Tam, Vaccines, Physicians and the Church
Theresa Tam is an odd, mysterious person, about whose past we know little, except that for years she has been involved in various globalist...
Trudeau Whipping Death Along
It is said that princes and noblemen at public schools in England each had their own ‘whipping boy’, a low-born student who would take...
Fra Juan’s Canticle of Light and Darkness
The Carmelite Order traces its spiritual roots back to the prophet Elijah, but its practical foundation was in the twelfth century, round about the...
Imagine, John Lennon
John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York studio apartment by a deranged fan on this day forty years ago – the...
The True Santa Claus
In these early days of Advent, we celebrate one of the most popular of saints, of whom we actually don't know all that much....
Live by Truth, or Die by Lies
We’re living in an era of obfuscation or, to frame the matter more bluntly, a veritable blizzard of lies, ones that are difficult to...
The End of the World As We Know It? Well, Not Yet –
A faithful reader mentioned that one or two of my columns have been a bit dire of late, but one must not wonder, for...
Escape from Seattle
The analogy to the 1981 John Carpenter film Escape from New York is a limited one, for Manhattan in the fictional account, turned into...