Wednesday, May 14, 2025

A Couple of Podcasts: Grace and Pearce

I was interviewed recently by Mrs. Bonnie Landry, who hosts a delightful, informative and very popular podcast. The target audience is mothers, especially those...

Enemies of Society

I'm reading historian Paul Johnson's Enemies of Society, published in 1977, and it is as timely now as it was over four decades ago...

Macron’s Praetorian, Mexicans and Moustaches

Emmanuel Macron's entire security detail - his personal praetorian guard, if you will - quit en masse rather than submit to his requirement that...

Pot, Schizophrenia and Debating Animal and Human Rights

Should we be surprised? A recent study out of Denmark, published in JAMA Psychiatry, links 'problematic' use of marijuana with the development of schizophrenia....

Cardinal Müller and the Motu

Gerhard Cardinal Müller's take on the Motu Proprio is a breath of the fresh air of clarity and charity. Here is an excerpt of...

Summorum Pontificum Abrogated: Quo Vadis?

Well, the Pope has done it - abrogated Benedict XVI's Summorum Pontificum, (July 7, 2007) and even John Paul II's Ecclesia Dei (July 2, 1988) -...

Twelve Thoughts on the Motu Proprio from the Catholic Herald

https://catholicherald.co.uk/twelve-quick-thoughts-on-pope-francis-dropping-his-long-expected-bomb-on-the-traditional-latin-mass/

Airing Things Out in the Fresh Light of Truth, and Rightly Ordered Resistance

A reader wrote the following in response to Father Testa's article on Canceling Conservative Priests: Ah, but is it the whole truth? For confidentiality reasons...

Flagrant Flowers, Variants and the Tragedy of A Suicide

Is anyone else not surprised? The United States Supreme Court – stacked with six purportedly conservative appointees – recently refused to hear the case...

Historical and Present Perspective

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, said George Santanyana in a speech before the House of Commons in Britain, in...