The Many Faces of Justin Trudeau
I just had to post this, at least for posterity’s sake. Poignant and evincing.
Editor’s Corner
Separez Vous
Besides being the joyful feast of Saint Nicholas, the sixth of December is also the sombre anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre in 1989, which has been commemorated with vigils ever since. Peruse Steyn’s take on the debacle, which did not reflect well, as he puts it, upon Canadian manhood. When Gamil Gharbi, son of[…]
Bibiana and All the Single Ladies
Saint Bibiana, who is commemorated today, a virgin martyred during the reign of Julian the Apostate, is the patroness of single laywomen, amongst her other heavenly duties (she is also invoked, for reasons I cannot discern, for hangovers, whether as a cure or as a prevention, but probably both). Single ladies could use a lot[…]
Andrew’s Shame and Main Chance
To paraphrase Richard Weaver’s dictum about ideas, sin too has consequences, some of them abrupt and awful, such as murder and suicide; while the deleterious effects of other sins, the more hidden variety usually, like a bad case of radiation poisoning, take months or even years to manifest. As Pope Saint John Paul II put[…]
Mammon’s Morbid Might
The conviction of David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress is a tragic one for the pro-life cause. As you may have read, they were found guilty of exposing, in an undercover sting operation, Planned Parenthood’s gruesome and deeply evil ‘business’ of selling the body parts of aborted babies. Whatever one thinks of their[…]
Pro, Clement and Columbanus
November 23rd is another of those triptych saint days, with three on offer to lift our spirits as we approach Christ the King, Advent and the beginning of a new liturgical year. Saint Clement of Rome (+99 A.D.) was either the first, second or third Pope after Saint Peter, depending on how they are counted,[…]
Margaret of Scotland and Gertrude of Germania
Saint Margaret of Scotland (+1093) was the devoted wife of Malcom III, King of the nation to which she fled as a fetching young royal English lass. Her family had been exiled from England, and Margaret was born and raised in a very pious Catholic environment in Hungary, of all places, a nation now returning[…]
Pagan Idolatry and Catholic Fortitude
A writer must at times take back, or at least re-form, opinions once vaguely and lightly and perhaps too hastily held. Even the great Augustine and Newman wrote their retractions. All part of that humility of Christian growth, one may hope. I finally watched, well, skimmed through, the ‘ritual’ held in the presence of the[…]
Two Williams, Two Losses
By one of those historical coincidences that are all part of God’s good providence guiding all things to their final end, besides being Guy Fawkes’ Day (1605), this is also the anniversary eight decades on (1688) of the landing of William of Orange at the coastal town of Brixham in southern England, instantiating what some[…]
Guy Fawkes’ Gunpowder
Remember, remember the fifth of November. Yes, it’s Guy Fawkes Day, when the English people of a certain religious persuasion – or of none at all – celebrate – or used to anyway when religion was more to the fore in people’s minds – the foiling of the ‘Gunpowder Plot’ of 1605, when a group[…]