Death of a Pope and a Floating Friar
Today is the 14th anniversary of the death of Pope Saint John Paul II, who displayed in his final years, months and especially days...
Carbon Taxes and Legging Freedom
The infamous and unjust ‘carbon tax’ begins today, foisting an extra 5 cents a litre on every fill-up. The purpose for this imposition is...
Rejoice!
A very joyous Laetare Sunday to all our readers, a day on which we can partake in some way in the joy of Easter...
A New Archbishop, and a Mystery Solved
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Bishop Michael Mulhall – who has led the diocese of Pembroke since 2007, wherein I and the College at which I teach both happen...
Kissing Rings and Boxing Rings
The Holy Father has just completed his one-day pilgrimage to the Holy House of Loreto. As tradition has it – not of divine faith,...
The Ides and the Martyrs
‘Tis the ides of March, when one is meant to beware, for it marks the assassination of Julius Caesar, a famous enough event in...
Tragedies, Evils and the Still, Small Voice
Tragedy in Christchurch, New Zealand, the bucolic land of sheep and Lord of the Rings, where murder is about as rare as it can...
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...
