Monday, June 30, 2025

The Three Saints of the Day

Today is one of the rare, if memory serves unique, days in the liturgical calendar wherein we celebrate three saints.  In chronological order, they...

Of Severed Heads, Pronoun Wars and Canaries

An Italian neurosurgeon, Sergio Canavero, is planning to head up the first human body-head transplant, taking the head from a man, Valery Spiridonov, who...

Of Universities, Family Day and JP II

*Anyone who is remotely interested in the state of the Canadian university, and especially all the parents pondering where to send their children, and...

Wojtyla and Beauty

We just completed our seventh annual Wojtyla Institute, on the theme of Beauty and Faith (hence, my brief hiatus from writing here) which was...

Fare Thee Well, Education…

On the sad state of our educational system, at all levels, one could wax eloquent for many hours. We have the well-compensated teachers at...

Of Hawking, the Ides and the Demise of the Canadian Family

I am still pondering the providential serendipity of Stephen Hawking’s death yesterday, the math whiz going to meet His God on pi day.  A...

Placating Tyrants and Playing Catch up with the Culture of Death

From Justin Trudeau’s eyebrow apparently falling off during a press scrum (apparently it may have been an optical illusion), to his tiff with President...

Truthful Repentance

Our Lady of Sorrows is a fitting memorial at this time in the Church’s history which, to put things in rather banal terms, is...

Snakes in Paradise

Did a snake really wash - or swim - ashore in Ireland – a land that, according to pious tradition, has been without the slithering...

Unity in Life and Liturgy

If you’d like a view into the speciousness and illogicality of the pro-abortion argument, you could do worse than peruse this Wired piece, on...