Cardinal Pell’s Innocence and Collegial Guilt
As justice has it, each of us deserves his day in court, and should be deemed innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. But such...
The Ultimate Gift of Perpetua and Felicity
Today is also the feast – a commemoration now, in the Lenten calendar of the Novus Ordo – of the early martyrs Perpetua and...
The Innocent Cardinal and the Plagiarizing Priest?
The Cardinal Pell saga continues, with his own lawyer now apparently conceding some sort of truth to the decades-old offences, while George Weigel offers...
Gender Neutrality?
From genderless people to genderless clothing – or is it the other way around? Glancing through the article, even the physiognomy, besides all the...
Pirates of Penzance!
Come and see Seat of Wisdom's performance of Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan's 1880 rollicking musical operetta, filled with music, singing, dancing, harmonies galore,...
The Truth of Synods and Conquistadors
Blaise Cardinal Cupich has denied any link between homosexuality and the sexual abuse crisis, and that the upcoming synod will not only not focus...
The Lustful Elephant in the Room
Of course, as non-rational beings, elephants cannot lust,  but I agree with Julia Meloni that unless the hierarchical powers-that-be realize that the clerical abuse crisis...
Manifesting Holiness
Cardinal Mueller’s Manifesto continues to create quite the stir, opening up what seems be a deep division within the Vatican. What that division signifies...
Suffering and Contending Cardinals
A blessed memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, the World Day of the Sick, on which I posted a few words in an editorial....
Humpty Dumpty, Revolutions and Two Saints
In one of the many ironies of this Humpty Dumpty age where words no longer mean what they are meant to mean, but only...
