Slovakia, Soccer Stars and the Great Reset

Could this happen in Canada? One wonders, with all those detention centres being constructed in remote locations, for reasons that are opaque, to which...

Terror in France, Then and Now

(It is difficult to believe that I wrote this piece five years ago, after a terrorist bomb attack in France at a soccer stadium,...

Courts, Cardinals and Constantine

Where does one even begin, as events outpace our capacity to absorb and assimilate them? The U.S. Senate, by a rather slim majority (52 to...

Trump, Celebrating Down’s and Go Barrett

October, as I just learned, has been decreed Down's Syndrome Awareness Month, a worthy endeavour to celebrate the joyful, solid fact that every life...

Giving Thanks

A blessed and joyful Thanksgiving to all of our readers, and we may include our American neighbours, who, of course, hold their own day...

Friendless Ford’s Nation

Doug Ford has apparently said that we must learn to live without friends, and with this, he is on par with his erstwhile-fellow-lockdown leader,...

George Weigel’s Moral Blind Spot

George Weigel, papal biographer, in a recent article in First Things, offers a defense of President Truman’s terrible decision in 1945 to destroy the two...

A Few Thoughts on Mrs. Coney Barrett and the Supremes

Before we point out some caveats – and there are always caveats –I’d like to make clear I think it overall, in the balance,...

The Cardinal’s Candidate

The widening chasm in the Catholic Church - mirroring that in the broader society and culture - continues unabated. One is left wondering at...

And the Virgin’s Name was Mary

In honour of this memorial of the Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin, we might peruse Pope Saint John Paul II's encyclical on the Rosary,...