Ontario’s Holy Lands
I come from the Holy Lands of Ontario.
These are the small towns in which the Irish settled over the 19th century, and built imposing...
Closing GM Oshawa: A blessing in disguise?
Is it the canary in the coal-mine, or the bull in an economic china shop? The closure of the Oshawa GM manufacturing plant –...
Who is Our King?
As Moses prepared the Israelites to enter the Promised Land he prophesied that they would ask for a king, “I will set a king...
Solzhenitsyn’s Century
When once a certain class of people has been placed by temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value,...
Etienne Gilson on Mad-Hatters and Metaphysics
The character of the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland has its origin in the fact that in the 1800s hat makers...
Franco and the Progressive Rewriting of History
For more than a century now, the international communist movement has been hiding and sanitizing its own history while subjecting its opponents to relentless...
Robert Bork on Slouching towards Gomorrah
Robert Heron Bork (1927 –2012) was a judge and law professor who was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court in 1987....
The State as Corrupting
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” ― Leo Tolstoy
If you peruse the Showbiz section of any...
Mulling over Merton
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk, theologian, poet, mystic, and the author of more than seventy books. Having lost both parents by the...
T.S. Eliot on Society and Religion
Thomas Sterns Eliot (1888-1965) was born in St. Louis, Missouri and migrated to England at the age of 25. As did the American novelist...