Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Contact the Senators to Send Bill C-4 Back!

I know this is last minute, but Bill C-4 may be voted on by the Senate as early as tomorrow. This proposed legislation -...

God, the Universe, and Hubble

On September 23rd, 1924, the universe got a little bigger - at least from our perspective. The ancients - Aristotle, Plato, Ptolemy - thought...

Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat!

A blessed solemnity of Christ the King to all our readers! A rather recent feast, as Church history goes, first promulgated by Pope Pius...

Newfoundland Moribundus?

Newfoundland and Labrador, jutting out into the cold North Atlantic, have been battered in past decades - no pun on their fishing industry, which...

Avuncular Bishops: Evoke Thy Inner Father

I don’t discipline my brother’s children; my role is avuncular. I may exhort them to be good, and demur when they do bad; I...

The Foiling of Fawkes

Remember, remember! the fifth of November.     The Gunpowder treason and plot;     I know of no reason     Why the Gunpowder treason    ...

Conscience and the Mandates

There is a science – one might more properly term it an art - to moral discernment in our Church’s tradition, and we offer...

Max Planck’s Mighty Minimum

Suppose for instance someone maintained that there is a minimum magnitude; that man with his minimum would shake the foundations of mathematics. So prophesied Aristotle...

What ‘Following the Science’ Really Means: The Limits of Medicine and Moral Freedom

If there is one thing that is omnipresent in empirical research, it is doubt. This line has always stuck with me, from a methodology textbook...