Sunday, December 14, 2025

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...

The Scottish Brogue Wins Many Merry Souls

Someone - ironically, a good friend with a pronounced British accent - sent me this tongue-in-cheek article from the Babylon Bee: Study Finds Preaching...

Childless Despair and Childlike Hope

This rather sad article recounts the growing movement of deliberate childlessness, in the United States, and beyond. Or, as those in the movement like...

Saint Augustine of Canterbury, the Man Who Who Made England Catholic

There are two Saints Augustine - the bishop of Hippo, and author of the Confessions and numerous other theological masterpieces, and, today's saint, Augustine,...

The Necessity of An ‘Ordo Amoris’

The notion of the ā€˜ordo amoris’ – the ā€˜order of love’ - has generated some debate of late, not least since some big names...

A Person’s A Person, No Matter How Tiny – At Least in Alabama

As Dr. Alexander Lozano points out, the Supreme Court of Alabama has decreed that frozen embryos - and, by extensions, embryos in general -...

Will and Kate’s Too Many Children

The apple falls not far from the tree: Prince William, son of Charles of the same title, albeit of a different region of England...

Cardinal Pell, Rest in Peace

George Cardinal Pell died yesterday, suffering a heart attack after what seemed to be routine hip surgery. Requiescat in pace. He was 81, and...

Avila, Mary and Veritatis Splendor

On this half-way mark in the month of October we celebrate the great mystic and doctor of the Church, Teresa of Avila (+1582) who,...

Francis, Leo and ‘Climate Change’

We’ve written before of the story that Pope Pius XII wanted to use the theory of the ā€˜Big Bang’ – first proposed by the...