The Bad and the Good
The German episcopacy begins its tortured synodal path today, with the intent, according to reports, to approve contraception, homosexuality and female ordination, any one...
Lawlessness and Trumping Choice
Besides being the memorial - or, as I like to think of it, the feast - of Saint Thomas Aquinas, this is also the...
The Decline and Fall of the Catholic University: Episode 1
Since the tragedy is so grand, so evocative and seemingly inevitable, it seems requisite to keep some historical record of the continued decline of...
A Day of Life and A Day of Reckoning
President Trump has declared today, January 22nd, the memorial of Saint Vincent the Martyr, as ‘National Sanctity of Human Life Day’ – something called...
Sunday Musical Offerings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClEZeWEpQ_8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlAmO-YMhws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAElf_dhOmQ
Thoughts on a Frigid Morn
It is minus 38 or so in Edmonton, without wind chill, too cold even for the penguins in their zoo; they have multiple feet...
The Costa and Celibacy
Pope Emeritus Benedict and Cardinal Sarah have just released a book in defence of clerical celibacy, just as Pope Francis is pondering relaxing the...
Memento Mori
A blessed and joyous feast of the Baptism of the Lord, commemorating the beginning of Christ’s public ministry which, as more than exegete has...
Intending Death and Drinking Deep
January 7th  was the fifth anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France, when the offices of the satirical magazine – which made fun...
Pope Sylvester, and the End of a Decade
As 2019 comes to an end, ‘tis fitting to look back on the year – even the decade - that was, and prepare for...
