Notre Dame and France’s Baptism
Nothing is accidental in God’s providence, which guides all things – concretely and immediately – to their final end, in the overall plan He...
Hoping Against Hope
Whether the young and drunkards both abound in hope is a question asked by Saint Thomas in his treatise on that most enigmatic and...
Andrew’s Shame and Main Chance
To paraphrase Richard Weaver’s dictum about ideas, sin too has consequences, some of them abrupt and awful, such as murder and suicide; while the...
Conservative, Liberal, Vive la Difference?
I have an article on the 'requirements for political office, posted this morning on Crisis magazine. Again, feel free to peruse, and I will...
33 Days and Seven Sundays to Saint Joseph!
While on families on this Family Day, and, more to the point, in this year of Saint Joseph, someone mentioned that today is the...
Anne Bolyen’s Apparent Demise. But ’tis Really So?
Anne Boleyn lost her head on this fine spring day in May, 1536, put to death by the decree of her own quasi-husband, Henry...
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...
The Surreality of Reality
Things are surreal, and getting more so by the minute - or so it goes. In the first minute or so of his interview...
Political ‘Knifing’?
I have been meaning to comment on a ridiculous article in the National Post at the end of August, but one which does pertain,...
In each child
In each child
I haven’t the strength to hold
For yet one moment more
An acrid haze of molten air
Shrouds the burning shore
Entire town engulfed in flame
This...
