Passions, Ford and Ireland’s Referendum

Adam Child’s playful take on women’s dressing, or dressing down, provides a humorous side to the debate on modesty, which does play in some...

The Passio of Perpetua and Felicity

It would be remiss of me not to mention today also as the memorial of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, the account of whose martyrdom...

Dumbing Down the Voting Age

I have an article published this morning in Crisis, on the necessity of reappropriating and reinstantiating beautiful liturgical music, which the Church describes as...
Pope St. John Paul II

Insidious Socialism

Pius XI taught that Socialism, along with its theoretical end-point, Communism, are intrinsically evil, entailing various fundamental violations of fundamental human rights, not least...

Mysteries, Missiles and Modern Morality

What happened in the school shooting at Stoneman High School gets even odder: It now seems a senior officer on scene ordered all the...

Of Conservatism, Ideology and Cowardice

So Patrick Brown has dropped out, one might say ‘again’, but the first resignation was from actually holding the leadership of the Conservative Party,...

Arroyo’s Interdict and Cupichean Conscience

Jesuit Father Anthony Spadaro, the controversial advisor to Pope Francis, has re-tweeted (how I dislike that verb, just in passing) a call by Anthony...

Jacinta’s Modest Proposal, Olympic Gold and Har Meggido

I just discovered this morning, after my reflections on Olympic modesty, that today is the memorial of Blessed Jacinta Marto, one of the Fatima...

The Devil Made Me Do It

How does the Devil enter a soul? Obviously through grave sin, but many commit such sins and don't seem to be overtly possessed, or...

A Good Lent

A blessed Ash Wednesday to all, as we begin the journey of Lent through the traditional practices of almsgiving, fasting  and prayer, not always...