Monday, June 30, 2025

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 Ă  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...

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...