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 cultural phenomena,... Read more.
Polycarp’s Late and Early Witness
Commemorating a simpler time in the nascent Church, today is the memorial of Saint Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, and a disciple of Saint John the Beloved himself. ... Read more.
Minors and Majors
The Vatican synod currently underway has as its theme the ‘protection of minors’, a category that in our current intellectual milieu triggers a vivid emotional... Read more.
Saint Peter’s Cathedra
It might seem odd to celebrate a ‘chair’, even one of Saint Peter, but today’s feast commemorates not a physical object, but the office of the... Read more.
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 on the former,... Read more.
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... Read more.
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 has... Read more.
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. Today’s regular reading, in God’s good providence,... Read more.
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 what people want them to mean, the Boy Scouts... Read more.
Blackface or Blackheart?
Minstrelsy has a rather long and convoluted history, its origin with a singing group of white men from Virginia – the Virginia Minstrels – who in the... Read more.