Anne, Joachim and Trudeau’s Tragic Legacy
A blessed feast of Saints Joachim and Anne on this July 26th, who may be deemed patrons of Canada, with the shrine of St....
Vandals, Old and New
Good Queen Vic’s at the bottom of the sea
Well, where else should she rather be?
We are witnessing a swath of wanton destruction across Canada...
Like a Tree Cut Back: Memoir of A Lost Ireland
Like a Tree Cut Back
By Michael McCarthy
The Poetry Business, Sheffield, England
smith-doorstop, 2021
Father Michael McCarthy’s memoir, Like a Tree Cut Back, takes its title from...
A Reader’s Criticism and a Rallying Cry
A reader - perhaps, as he admits, for his first and only time - wrote the following comment in response to my Dominion Day...
The Quite Real Limits of Evil
(For those who prefer auditory format, we will record some of these articles as 'podcasts', and please do let us know what you think).
History,...
Our Original, Glorious and Very Catholic Anthem
A happy and grateful Canada Day to all our readers which I prefer to call Dominion Day, as signifying more fully our allegiance to...
Canada’s Dominion Day
A blessed Canada, or more properly, Dominion Day to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of ‘Canada’ as a (mostly)...
Virtue and Vice, and Not Everything Nice
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
What does it mean to be ‘virtuous’? There is...
The Astronomer and Physicist and Worlds Colliding
What have ancient Greek philosophy, a prophecy of Christ and Covid in common, and might this commonality be used to find common ground? Read...
Recognizing Lies and Truth
There are different ways to lie. The classical definition is ‘to enunciate a falsehood with the intent to deceive’, derived from Saint Augustine, adopted...
