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,...
Vocation and the Single Life
(This article recently appeared in Catholic World Report and may serve as a good addendum to Father Callam's exhortation for the Church to canonize...
Some Thoughts on the Alleged Prophecies of Father Michel Rodrigue
(A re-post of this earlier article in July, with a comment at the end that all readers should peruse, and follow the link...the plot...
WW II, Euthanasia and a Neo-Dachau
This first day of September marks the 81st anniversary of the beginning of World War II, with Germany's invasion of Poland, one week after...
‘Conservatives’ Inc, and Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize
The saying goes that politics is a mugs' game, the art of the possible and the practical and all that, and we must take...
