Singing, Sex-Ed and Louis and Zelie Martin
Paula Adamick in her article today, in her usual vivid way, connects the cultural trajectory from the ‘long, hot summer’ of 1968 to the...
Society, Integrating, Disintegrating, Now and Hereafter
Our society is fragmenting, a tragic process accelerated of late, and it is incumbent on us to maintain some level of social cohesion, to...
Trudeau Ups the Ante, and a Reasoned Defense for those Resisting
In a recent television interview in Quebec, conducted en francais, Justin Trudeau said:
We are going to end this pandemic by proceeding with the vaccination…
We all...
Angels Guardian
This memorial of the Guardian Angels goes back to the year 1500, the very dawn of the Protestant ‘Reformation’, seventeen years before Luther would pin...
Normalizing Deviancy
Well, another evening CBC episode, dedicated this time to the flying of the rainbow flag in various locales, the most controversial being the American...
Guy, Gosnell and Social Cohesion
Remember, remember the fifth of November. Yes, it is Guy Fawkes Day, when Brits of a certain religious persuasion celebrate - or used to...
San Lorenzo in Roma
A blessed feast of Saint Lawrence to all our readers, the third century martyr whose quite literally legendary life echoes through the ages, his...
Benedict XV’s War and Peace
There is a fin de siècle feel in the air, akin to what people must have felt in 1914 on eve of the Great...
Son of Consolation
It is fitting that we celebrate Barnabas, the ‘son of consolation’, or the ‘son of encouragement’, around the time of Pentecost, for the Holy...
Leo the Great
Pope Saint Leo the Great, who reigned from 440 until his death on this day in 461, was known for many things. With his...