Father Marco Responds
A reader, 'T', wrote the following in reply to Father Testa's article on Canceling Conservative Priests, and I thought this required a response outside...
Outlawing Conversion, Censorship and the Price of Whiskey
The wayward Liberals continue their dismantling of Canada: After just killing the proposed bill that would have prohibited at least gender-selective abortion, they just...
Rehabilitating Nero?
I’m not surprised the day has arrived, that historians are now rehabilitating - so to speak - the reputation of the diabolical monstrosities of...
A Letter to a Director of Education in the Catholic School System
(From a concerned parent and teacher, to the Director of Education of a certain Catholic school board, which, like so many - to quote...
Storming the Beaches for Freedom
June 6th was the 77th anniversary of the storming of Normandy, the Allied offensive on the north shore of France, taking the war to...
A New Papal Nuncio for Canada
Canada has a new papal nuncio, Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič, a 68 year old prelate from Slovenia, trained in the diplomatic services of the Vatican...
Slavery, Abortion and Denying Communion
Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it - So Randall Smith begins his must-read essay in The Catholic Thing -...
An Addendum to the Ugandan Martyrs, and King Mwanga
I was reading some of the corollary to the martyrs we celebrate today, the numerous 'pages' of King Mwanga put to death for resisting...
A Letter to a Local Paper
The local newspaper of the area in which I happen to live published an editorial a few weeks ago, claiming that those who have...
Dialogue with a Reader on the ‘Virtual’ Mass
(What follows is an exchange with a faithful reader, having his own qualms about 'virtual' Masses - I thought our dialogue, slightly adapted, might...
