Prayer to Our Lady of Walsingham
O BLESSED Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Walsingham, Mother of God and our most gentle Queen and Mother, look down in mercy upon us,...
Joyful Pio and Angry Greta
Before we leave Padre Pio in the liturgical rearview mirror, an anecdote that sort of captures the man, who lived his Faith, as do...
Oxymoronic Synodality, Blackface and Green Truancy
'Binding synodality' we add to the list of oxymorons - those obviously incompatible concepts that people still stick together. Synods, that is, gatherings of...
Pope Francis’ Problematical Flexibility
I’m not sure what to make of the Holy Father’s most recent comments, again on an airplane back to Rome, from his papal visit...
Despair, Hope and the Rosary
In honour of the Blessed Virgin, we might peruse Pope Saint John Paul II's encyclical on the Rosary, Rosarium Virginis Mariae, which he promulgated...
The Company We Keep
The climate-change crowd seem to be testing the bounds of sanity and, pardon the pun, good taste. A Swedish professor, a certain Magnus Söderlund has...
A Philosophical Habit of Mind
On a more positive note on how universities may best fulfill what they were originally founded to do, please do feel free to peruse...
Vita Primitiva
A few thoughts on this Saturday morning in early September, which I hope finds all our readers well.
Peruse Paula Adamick's take on the Church...
Cardinals, Climate and McCarrick
Pope Francis plans to appoint 13 new Cardinals in a consistory on October 5th. There are currently 215 members of the sacred college, of...
Patroness of Poland, Mother of God
Our Lady of Czestochowa, the most famous shrine in Poland, and that country’s patroness, is shrouded in mystery. Legend has it that the original...
