Corona and the Joke’s on Joaquin
On this world day of the sick, under the patronage of Our Lady of Lourdes, ‘tis perhaps requisite that we ask how bad is...
Emiliani, Magisterium, and Mohawks
Today, with Saint Josephine Bakhita, we also celebrate Saint Jerome Emiliani (+1537), who ran away from his home in Venice at the age of...
Poverty, and People Ain’t the Problem
A rich world and a vibrant economy can and should end poverty said Pope Francis on February 5th in an address at a Vatican...
Trump, Truth, Teachers and Thanatos
Trump’s State of the Union address was a remarkable affair, from what highlights I could glean. Ebullient, optimistic, confident – all in the very...
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...
