Saint Barnabas and Keeping up the Good Fight of the Faith
It is fitting that we celebrate the Apostle Barnabas, the ‘son of consolation’, or the ‘son of encouragement’, in this season of the Holy...
German and Paglian Scandal
What are we to say of the German bishop’s conference – now well traversed on its own path of ‘synodality’ – which just proclaimed...
Saint Anthony of Padua…or Lisbon
Saint Anthony of Padua is usually named historically after the city-state in northeastern Italy where he died after his brief but full life at...
Pro, Clement and Columbanus
November 23rd is another of those triptych saint days, with three on offer to lift our spirits as we approach Christ the King, Advent...
Wonder Woman, Artificial Intelligence and Human Work
Wonder Woman has opened in theatres. I will have more to say on this feminist icon, and what it means for modern masculinity, or...
Thought Control, Khadr and King Henry the Emperor
I have an article published this morning in Crisis magazine, on a quartet of totalitarian thought-control laws recently passed here in Canada. Feel free...
A Panoply of Four Saints
We celebrate a veritable panoply of saints today: In Canada, we have the memorial of Saint Marguerite D’Youville (+1771), the first Canadian-born saint. She...
Cardinal Pell, Rest in Peace
George Cardinal Pell died yesterday, suffering a heart attack after what seemed to be routine hip surgery. Requiescat in pace. He was 81, and...
Canadian errant
David Warren, former editor of the Idler and columnist for the Ottawa Citizen, now writes an “anti-blog” entitled Essays in Idleness at davidwarrenonline.com. He was born...
Power, Authority and the Rhinoceros
(Another re-post, which I hope helps the reader see his way through our current thicket)
G.K. Chesterton once quipped that a rhinoceros in a china...
