Bourne Redundancy: The Mediocrity of Movies
Matt Damon has played his eponymous hero, Jason Bourne, since 2002's 'Bourne Identity', finishing the third of the films, the 'Bourne Ultimatum', in 2007....
Alice von Hildebrand, Requiescat in Pace
Alice von Hildebrand, the widow of Dietrich von Hildebrand, and a brilliant and popular professor of philosophy and theology in her own right, died...
Saint Bernard’s Three Advents
In one of his sermons, the Cistercian abbot, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (+1090) distinguishes three Advents of Christ: The first, at Christmas, when He...
Saint Apollinaris of Ravenna
The See of Ravenna – on the north-east coast of Italy – was once, way back in the Middle Ages, nearly on par with...
A Vote for Life
The referendum vote in Ireland today, on the ‘right’ to abortion, is a turning point in our culture, for the Catholic nation symbolizes something...
Work Made Light in Saint Joseph
In the waning years of the 19th century, before the war to end all wars at the dawn of the twentieth, followed by the...
Clarifying Thoughts on the Olympic Ideal
I suppose I am in the Olympic mood, but a couple of further thoughts on sports and athletics, which are on most people's minds,...
Thomas’ Enduring Legacy
Today is the anniversary of the death of Saint Thomas Aquinas. In March of 1274, he fell ill on his way to the second Council...
Vanier’s Long Shadow
The plot thickens around affaire de Jean Vanier. I did not know he admitted to the sexual liasons in 2016, that the women had...
Pope Francis’ Troubling Terminology
There is a principle in theology – which applies to other sciences as well – that we interpret the less authoritative, the less precise...
