Mother Teresa’s Spiritual Pilgrimage to the Poorest of the Poor
Students have now flocked to university, where they will be subjected to four years of indoctrination in various aspects of modernism, for want of...
Like a Tree Cut Back: Memoir of A Lost Ireland
Like a Tree Cut Back
By Michael McCarthy
The Poetry Business, Sheffield, England
smith-doorstop, 2021
Father Michael McCarthy’s memoir, Like a Tree Cut Back, takes its title from...
Fifty Years On, the Controversy Continues
I was not sure we should mention the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landings, fraught as they are with so-called conspiracy theories. Whatever one...
Labor et Dolor
We recently held a faculty retreat at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom, whose theme was 'Play'. Â A curious focus, one might think, for serious-minded...
Cathedrals and Chastisements
It was one year ago yesterday – April 15th, 2019– that Notre Dame cathedral, built over a century between 1160 and 1260, and has...
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...
The Profound Peace of Assisi
I wasn’t quite prepared for Assisi, even if it was just what I needed. I suppose God works like that. When I got off...
No Life Insurance for the Vaxxed? And Truckers Unite!
This intriguing, and tragic development proves a warning, if true.  A man in France had a life insurance policy worth millions. He got the jab...
The Wreck of OECTA
The public teachers of Ontario – including the Catholic Board, still holding that title, with not much to show for it, but more on...
Saint Philip and Witnessing for Life
Today is the feast of Saint Philip Neri (+1595), the second Apostle of Rome, and the founder of the Oratory, whose houses are now...
