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...
Should the Church Obey the State? The Limits of Law
I have a reflection out this morning on Catholic World Report, on the Limits of Law and Obedience, if you'd like to peruse my...
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...