Synods, Speech and Synagogue
The Synod on Youth has closed, after approving the final document in accord with the new rules on Episcopal Synods promulgated by Pope Francis...
Blasphemy and Bubble Zones
I read recently that Pope John Paul II had a vision of Europe being taken over by Islam, the continent’s once-vibrant Christianity gone silent...
Kavanaugh: Bork or Kennedy?
As the United States mid-term elections loom, peruse Carl Sundell’s take on Robert Bork, who went through his own gruelling Kavanaugh-esdque process three decades...
Saint John Paul II at 40
Today we commemorate Pope Saint John Paul II, for this day chosen as his ‘feast’ marks the 40 anniversary of his coronation as the...
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,...
Hurricanes, Stocks and Good Pope John
The weather and the economy are both volatile, of late, with the aptly-named Hurricane Michael (‘who is like God’) smashing into the Florida panhandle, the...
Angels Guardian and the Youth Synod
This memorial of the Guardian Angels goes back to the year 1500, the very dawn of the Protestant ‘Reformation’, seventeen years before Luther would...
Patching the Chinese Schism?
Be wary in signing deal with atheistic Communists, Confucius might have said, had he lived another millennia or so, only to see his nation...
Kavanaugh’s Inquisition
One knows not what to say at times, as events spiral faster than one’s capacity to comment on them; even one’s reflection is superseded:...
Blessed Emilie Tavernier-Gamelin and Walsingham
The Church in Canada venerates a number of Canadian saints and blesseds, almost all of them from Quebec, since the rest of Canada was...
