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...
CRISPR Children, Edited
You may have heard of CRISPR babies, which may phonically sound rather macabre, but the acronym stands for the rather prosaic Clustered Regularly Interspaced...
Am I not your Mother?
On a rather chilly morning on a hillside outside what is now Mexico City, in the year of our Lord 1531, while the Protestant ‘Reformation’ was...
Climate Change and Glorious Campion
If there is one thing universal in inductive research, it is doubt. So read the textbook, through which I was first introduced to the...
Christus Vincit in Veritate
A blessed and joyous solemnity of Christ the King to all our readers, a feast first put in the calendar in 1925 by Pope...
True Olympian Virtue
Naheed Nenshi is upset. The long-time Calgary mayor is exercised over their lost Olympic bid, or should I say, the bid that never was,...
Paradise Lost, but All is Not
Malibu is burning, and we may be inclined to see some sort of divine sign in the conflagration, not least in the loss of...
Sacrifice and Sentiment
We should pause and reflect – and pray, a verb which you will not often hear on the CBC - as we commemorate the...
The Great Leo
Pope Saint Leo the Great, who reigned from 440 until his death on this day in 461, was known for many things. With his...
Pope Pius’ Truth and Reality Catching Up
A blessed feast of the Dedication of the Cathedral of Saint John Lateran to all our readers! The highest-ranking church in all Christendom, the...