Mater Ecclesiae in Ordinary Time
We celebrate today the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, an ancient title of the Virgin, which was formally instituted into the Holy...
Controlling Truth
On the canary in the coalmine files, one headline declared that web traffic for the Daily Mail decreased by 50% after Google ‘tweaked’ its...
Norbert and Normandy
Saint Norbert (+1134) was a zealous bishop and founder, at the forefront of the ecclesial reform named after Pope Gregory VII, Hildebrand, who was...
Courage, Conviction and Conservatism
Our mind-numbing, tax-crazy, abortion-euthanasia-climate-gender-sex-obsessed, debt-and-deficit-be-damned embarrassment of a government just gets worse by the day. And, although I am not one for posting privately...
Authority, Truth and Acronyms
Theresa May has resigned, after her tragic failure in managing Brexit - or her success in mismanaging the whole debacle. The problems go far...
Mexican Martyrs and Saints
A brief mention of Saint Cristobal Magallanes Jara and 26 companions, all canonized on this day in the Jubilee year of 2000 by Pope...
Choosing Life and Death
In a tragic parody of Moses’ exhortation to choose the way of life and the way of death, a Malaysian girl, standing atop a...
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...
Good and Bad Intentions
On the note of good intentions, I have finished a third reflection on 'the Letter' of the theologians to the Holy Father, which will...
Bulgarian Pilgrimage of Hope
Pope Francis begins his journey – I like to think of these as pilgrimages, as all our journeys ultimately should be – to Bulgaria...
