Labour Day, Leisure and Life
Labour Day is a rather prosaic name for the last holiday of summer. Why not, 'blow out day', or 'the end of leisure, and...
Saint Anthony and Our Lady
There is a curious connection with todayâs memorial of Saint Anthony of Padua, the place in Italy where he died (in 1231), for he...
Notre Dame and France’s Baptism
Nothing is accidental in Godâs providence, which guides all things â concretely and immediately â to their final end, in the overall plan He...
Dear, Old South Side Hill
The fondest thoughts of childhoodâs day twine âround thee, dear old hill,
And as I gaze, thy bare, bleak braes with love my bosom thrill;
For...
You’ve Been Googled
James Damore, an engineer at Google (or should I say former engineer at Google) was fired recently for sending around a memo criticizing his company's...
Western Schism, Redivivus?
There is no easy solution to the present crisis in the Catholic Church, which is a crisis of faith, of doctrine, of morals and...
King David’s Take on Covid
Back in biology class, we debated whether viruses were âaliveâ. Theyâre certainly the lowest form of living thing, if living at all. They cannot...
Would A Real Conservative Please Stand Up?
Patrick Brown continues his castration of the Conservative Party of Ontario, this time rebuking a fellow MPP for making some off-hand comments about the...
Dr. Robert Maloneâs Magnanimity
Saint Thomas distinguishes between the formal and the material objects of faith: The material being what we believe, the formal why we believe it,...
Pope Pius’ Truth and Reality Catching Up
A blessed feast of the Dedication of the Cathedral of Saint John Lateran to all our readers! The highest-ranking church in all Christendom, the...
