Fourteenth Sunday: The Inadequacy of Relativism and Random Chance
A theme common to Ezekiel and Saint Mark—the readings for the fourteenth Sunday, year B—is the necessity of faith . . .  and, be...
Canceling Conservative Priests
Our world is becoming increasingly violent; a world where people are led and misled by half-truths, slogans and ideological clichés. This violence is directed...
Wherefore Canada?
In 2015, when Justin Trudeau described Canada to the New York Times as the world’s “first postnational state,” adding “there is no core identity,...
Josef Pieper on Death and Immortality
“I am the resurrection and the life. He that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives...
Canceling Conservative Priests
Our world is becoming increasingly violent; a world where people are led and misled by half-truths, slogans and ideological clichés. This violence is directed...
Wisdom in Tough Times From Thomas More
1. When you feel like quitting
“You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds… What you cannot turn...
Rheinberger’s Abendlied
Josef Rheinberger (+ 1901), a native of tiny Liechtenstein, but resident of Germany for most of his life, was a prolific fin de siècle...
Twelfth Sunday: Living the Truth Without Compromise
Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? (Job. 38:1).
We do well to consider the meaning of this question, posed by God...
My Anniversary of Ordination, Saint Joseph and Father’s Day
Today, Sunday 20, 2021, in the English speaking world, we celebrate Father’s Day. That means that both Malta as well as Canada are celebrating...
The Cruise of the ‘Nona’
Hilaire Belloc, The Cruise of the 'Nona.’ 1925
On the whole, of the cads and gentlemen I have met, I could give the cads a shade of...
