A Tale of Two Synods
Today marks the beginning of two synods, the one on the āAmazonā, with its controversial working document, and the one in Germany, with perhaps...
Wherefore Art Thou, Candidates?
What is one to say of our Prime Minister - or Prime Minstrel, as he has been dubbed - prancing around in blackface, curiously...
Blessed Emilie Tavernier’s Love of the Poor
For an official biography of today's home-grown Canadian saint, Emilie Tavernier, the youngest of fifteen children - yes, large families are quite conducive to...
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
Iām not sure what to make of the Holy Fatherās 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 SƶderlundĀ 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...
