Security, Saintliness and Serious Polygamy
I joked of 'fortress U.S.A.' in a text message as my travelling companion and I drove through the desolate countryside south of Winnipeg. On...
Wojtyla Institute
A reminder that Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is offering the annual Wojtyla Institute on the weekend of August 10-13th. Â This year's theme...
Thought Control Totalitarianism, in Canada?
We here in the grand Dominion of Canada have passed some very bad laws of late, sadly during what should be an otherwise celebratory 150th...
Speaking the Lingo of the Millennials: Social and Religious Justice
Many members of the Millennial generation are strongly concerned with social justice. They are die-hard Democrats (or NDPers, in the Canadian context), and leftism...
Thought Control, Khadr and King Henry the Emperor
I have an article published this morning in Crisis magazine, on a quartet of totalitarian thought-control laws recently passed here in Canada. Â Feel free...
Saint Benedict and Travels
Today is the feast of Saint Benedict, with the variety of whose 'options' carrying his name he may not necessarily agree. At a young...
Beat the Devil
The British agnostic philosopher Bertrand Russell said he could not believe in Satan because the very notion of a devil was not even probable,...
Whence and What Authority?
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them…”
So quoted Malvolio in Shakespseare’s Twelfth Night (albeit as he read from a letter...
Maria Goretti, Lust and the Noon-Day Devil
Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God (Mt 5:8)
But I say to you every one who looks at a woman...
Thomas the ‘Doubter’ and the Nature of Faith
Today is the feast of Saint Thomas, the Apostle, who gets a bit of a bad rap as 'doubting' Thomas, a term is that...
