A Triptych of Saints
Propitiously, we celebrate a triptych of saints onĀ this November day:
The first, in time, was Saint Clement (+99 A.D.), traditionally accepted as the third...
Blessed James Duckett: The Joy of Forgiveness
Before this day ends, a brief word about the remarkable, and largely unknown, Blessed James Duckett, about whom I knew nothing until a write...
Dancing Away the Darkness
Saint Francis de Sales once quipped, if my fallible memory serves, that dances were a lot like mushrooms: Even the best weren't worth that...
Billionaire Bill and the Woeful Wages of Mammon
Sam Kriss has an intriguing take on Bill Gates, and what being that rich - I mean, really, unimaginably rich - does to someone....
Gregory’s Mission
One of the great joys of history is reminiscing about the past, giving hope for the present; for history is āeschatologicalā, moving towards a...
Idle, No More, Please
Eric Idle, of Monty Python comedy troupe fame, has recently tweeted that 'climate change deniers' (one of the few groups remaining, Ā in this Disney-esque...
Science, Pseudoscience…and Miracles
One of the key differences between science and pseudoscience, according to Karl Popper, was falsifiability. Science, properly speaking, presents hypotheses that can be tested,...
Borden’s Burdensome Tax
On this day, in 1917,Ā Prime Minister Robert Borden - whose mustachioed visage is on the $100 bill - imposed an income tax on...
Myriads of Martyrs for China
Through the centuries there have been untold thousands of martyrs in China, and July 9th is chosen as the day to commemorate them, for...
Our Lady of the Pillar
This Marian commemoration dates back to very early in the Church's history. In fact, it is the first 'vision' of Our Lady. As the...
