All Saints’, Real Conversion Therapy and Hope Amidst the Ruins
This is the eve of All Saints’ known affectionately in our era as ‘Halloween’, even if many may not knows the derivative of this now-mostly-pagan... Read more.
Terror in France, Then and Now
(It is difficult to believe that I wrote this piece five years ago, after a terrorist bomb attack in France at a soccer stadium, with at least one hundred killed.... Read more.
Courts, Cardinals and Constantine
Where does one even begin, as events outpace our capacity to absorb and assimilate them? The U.S. Senate, by a rather slim majority (52 to 48) has confirmed Mrs.... Read more.
Pope John Paul, the Good and the Great
Karol Wojytla, the man who would be known to history as John Paul II, was a true man, his character forged in the fire of suffering, elevated and perfect by the... Read more.
Friendless Ford’s Nation
Doug Ford has apparently said that we must learn to live without friends, and with this, he is on par with his erstwhile-fellow-lockdown leader, Boris Johnson. Besides... Read more.
George Weigel’s Moral Blind Spot
George Weigel, papal biographer, in a recent article in First Things, offers a defense of President Truman’s terrible decision in 1945 to destroy the two cities... Read more.
Humility, simplicity, charity…but above all charity (Blessed Emilie Tavernier’s dying words)... Read more.
Januarius and His Blood
Saint Januarius was bishop of Benevuento, in the south-west of Italy, about whom a number of legends are told – that he survived unscathed being burnt in a... Read more.
The Cardinal’s Candidate
The widening chasm in the Catholic Church – mirroring that in the broader society and culture – continues unabated. One is left wondering at the statement... Read more.
And the Virgin’s Name was Mary
In honour of this memorial of the Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin, we might peruse Pope Saint John Paul II’s encyclical on the Rosary, Rosarium Virginis Mariae,... Read more.