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...
Should We Receive Communion Daily? A Respondeo
I heard recently a homily from a traditional priest, the theme of which was how often we should receive Holy Communion, which topic, funnily...
All twelve days
“Therefore your end is on you,
Is on you and your kings,
Not for a fire in Ely fen,
Not that your gods are nine or ten,
But...
Further Thoughts on Pat and Sam
As I mentioned in the slightly revised version of my Sam against the Leviathan article, young Sam Oosterhoff, as the balanced but unsympathetic Michael...
Our Lady and Diana
A blessed Saturday of Our Lady to all our readers. The custom of dedicating ferial Saturdays - those with no other memorials or feasts...
On the Beach, With Benedict and Hope
Pope Benedict XVI, in his second encyclical, the 2008 Spe Salvi (Salvific Hope) offers a distinction from the Letter to the Hebrews: We as...
Katowice’s Hot Air
At the World Climate Conference in Katowice, Poland, which wrapped up on December 15th, 196 countries – well, representatives from said countries, including our...
Le Sieci and Christ the King
I left off these reflections with my arrival in Florence, after the Purgatory - I will not say hell, for it had its end...
Vanier’s Legacy
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum dicendum est – speak nothing but good of the dead, first attributed to Chilon of Sparta in Greek, we...
