Of Trillions and Youth Summits
Another milestone for progressive Canada: We will soon hit the trillion dollar debt mark, not quite up to the 20 trillion south of the...
Doing One’s Duty, and the Bomb
From the files of police who do their duty, unlike the police in the recent Florida massacre, who did less than their duty, the...
Lettergate and the Limits of Prediction
The controversy over 'Lettergate' is an indicative one, wherein the Vatican Secretariat for Communication, Msgr. Dario Vigano (who has since been demoted, sort of,...
Of Coercion and Suffering
Paula Adamick has a piece on coercion by the State, very a propos, for the power and intrusion of the government is waxing stronger...
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...
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...
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...