Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Gender Neutrality?

From genderless people to genderless clothing – or is it the other way around? Glancing through the article, even the physiognomy, besides all the...

Pirates of Penzance!

Come and see Seat of Wisdom's performance of Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan's 1880 rollicking musical operetta, filled with music, singing, dancing, harmonies galore,...

The Truth of Synods and Conquistadors

Blaise Cardinal Cupich has denied any link between homosexuality and the sexual abuse crisis, and that the upcoming synod will not only not focus...

The Lustful Elephant in the Room

Of course, as non-rational beings, elephants cannot lust,  but I agree with Julia Meloni that unless the hierarchical powers-that-be realize that the clerical abuse crisis...

Manifesting Holiness

Cardinal Mueller’s Manifesto continues to create quite the stir, opening up what seems be a deep division within the Vatican. What that division signifies...

Suffering and Contending Cardinals

A blessed memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, the World Day of the Sick, on which I posted a few words in an editorial....

Humpty Dumpty, Revolutions and Two Saints

In one of the many ironies of this Humpty Dumpty age where words no longer mean what they are meant to mean, but only...

2019 Dystopia, Papal Pilgrimage and Super Bowls

I just read that 2019 was the futuristic year – at least in relative terms – in which the films Blade Runner (1982) and...

Terror, Thomas and Abortion

Another Islamic bombing, one that adds sacrilege to sacrifice, as the target were participants in Sunday Mass at the cathedral of Our Lady of...

The True Ecumenism of Saint Francis de Sales

In this week of prayer for Christian unity, I have an article on the Toronto archdiocesan webpage – or more like a few brief...