15 Minute Cities – Utopian Villages, or Dystopic Hells?
There's much ado of late on '15 minute cities', (FMCs - like everything else now, they have their own acronym) a proposed redesigning of...
Singing, Sex-Ed and Louis and Zelie Martin
Paula Adamick in her article today, in her usual vivid way, connects the cultural trajectory from the ‘long, hot summer’ of 1968 to the...
Macron’s Praetorian, Mexicans and Moustaches
Emmanuel Macron's entire security detail - his personal praetorian guard, if you will - quit en masse rather than submit to his requirement that...
Blessed Catherine of Saint Augustine
We have celebrated a number of 'Catherines' of late in our liturgical calendar: Kateri Tekakwitha on April 17th; Catherine of Siena on April 29th;...
Ideas Do Have Consequences
On this day, in 1925, a young German veteran, bitter in soul from the humiliating defeat of his nation in the recent war ‘to...
The Ultimate Gift of Perpetua and Felicity
Today is also the feast – a commemoration now, in the Lenten calendar of the Novus Ordo – of the early martyrs Perpetua and...
Distinguishing Sin
Sin is complex, with multiple layers and levels. What is offered here will hopefully help discern our own moral state, as well as, to...
The Witness of the Carmelites of Compiègne – Le Temoinage des Carmelites de Compiègne
It was on this day in a Parisian summer in 1794 - one day after the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel - that sixteen...
God: The Science, the Evidence – A Review
God: The Science, the Evidence, by Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies, is an intriguing book, not quite what I expected when asked to review...
Blesseds Vasyl Velykchovskyand Nykyta Budka: Hidden Ukrainian and Canadian Heroes
The subversive doctrines of atheistic communism and socialism have infected nations, institutions, media, education, and souls, throughout the world. Make no mistake, as Pius...
