What Hold Has China Over the Vatican?

Here is a disconcerting exchange between Pope Leo XIV and an EWTN reporter, when the Pope is asked to comment on the case of...

Saint David, of Wales

A brief note on Saint David, the sixth-century monastic bishop, now patron, of Wales, born at an unknown date, but who likely died on...

Benedict’s Resignation

Hard to believe that it was a fateful thirteen years ago on this February 28th that Pope Benedict XVI resigned the papacy, the first...

One Stop Death Shop

Well, it's certainly convenient, as well as profitable: A funeral home in Vancouver that will kill you, then cremate your body - or, if...

Nietzsche and Tumbler

Nietzsche either warned or advocated - depending on your point of view - the transvaluation of all values, which is to say, the inversion...

Harvesting the Living

The words themselves are chilling: 'Pre-death approval by the coroner': And on it goes into the abyss: "17: The Chief Coroner may allow the removal of...

Anastasia – the Musical!

I'd like to say publicly that the students here at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, under the direction of our staff and faculty,...

By the Teeth of Saint Apollonia

Saint Apollonia (+249) was a virgin martyr put to death under the reign of Philip the Arab, just before the far more violent persecution...

Thomas’ Pange Lingua

Saint Thomas Aquinas spent some time in the early 1260's in the beautiful Italian city of Orvieto, perched way high up on a promontory, about...

Saint Thomas and the Unborn

Today's feast of the great priest and doctor of the Church, Saint Thomas Aquinas, is also the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1988 striking...