Thursday, December 4, 2025

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...

Happy New Year to All Our Readers, in Music and Song

A blessed Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, known more commonly in the secular world, if that is not tautological, as New Year's Day...

Adelaide, Netflix, Anathema Sit

Saint Adelaide, whose memorial was yesterday in that broad calendar of the blessed, was the first, and as far as I know only, Empress...

German and Paglian Scandal

What are we to say of the German bishop’s conference – now well traversed on its own path of ‘synodality’ – which just proclaimed...

The Many Faces of Justin Trudeau

I just had to post this, at least for posterity's sake. Poignant and evincing.

Separez Vous

Besides being the joyful feast of Saint Nicholas, the sixth of December is also the sombre anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre in 1989,...

Bibiana and All the Single Ladies

Saint Bibiana, who is commemorated today, a virgin martyred during the reign of Julian the Apostate, is the patroness of single laywomen, amongst her...

Andrew’s Shame and Main Chance

To paraphrase Richard Weaver’s dictum about ideas, sin too has consequences, some of them abrupt and awful, such as murder and suicide; while the...

Mammon’s Morbid Might

The conviction of David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress is a tragic one for the pro-life cause. As you may have read,...

Pro, Clement and Columbanus

November 23rd is another of those triptych saint days, with three on offer to lift our spirits as we approach Christ the King, Advent...