A blessed Easter Octave Friday, which liturgically is a Sunday. There is an old adage about a ‘month of Sundays’, but the Catholic Church really does have a week of Sundays after the Solemnity of the Resurrection, the greatest feast in our calendar, the solemnity of solemnities, and the date from which all the rest […]
I met an acquaintance of mine recently in one of local stores (of course, government run) that sells liquid cheer, to refresh the weary soul after a long Lent. He was there to buy a blend of Canadian Rye Whiskey, voted last December by a connoisseur as the ‘best whiskey in the world’. As a […]
*Our prayers go out for all the victims and, yes, the perpetrators of yesterday’s attacks in Belgium. We are up against a determined enemy, willing to kill, and to die, for their disordered cause. Nothing so motivates a man as religious zeal, but we must recall that that does not make religion evil. Corruptio optimi […]
*A blessed solemnity of Saint Joseph to one and all! *To paraphrase the words of the great American Justice, Robert Bork ,we slouch each day closer to Gomorrah. Louise Ciccone, the woman otherwise unfortunately known as ‘Madonna’, has crossed another threshold in her older-age depravity (she is now in her later fifties) by exposing […]
So begins the cozying up of Trudeau and Obama, birds of a feather, ‘liberals’ (or I would say ‘extremists’, to save the honorable and venerable term ‘liberal’ from further degradation) of the most extreme stamp, breathing forth all the bromides of the modern zeitgeist from their Vanity Fair facades. Behind the glitz and glamour, Sophie […]
The Holy Father has started another furore with his latest off-the-cuff interview on the plan ride back from his pilgrimage to Mexico. I would recommend that all those interested read the entire text of the interview, or at least the relevant bits. As I have written before, it is always good to go back to […]
*Anyone who is remotely interested in the state of the Canadian university, and especially all the parents pondering where to send their children, and all the high school graduates wondering where to go next year, must read this recent essay by Professor Ron Srigley of the University of Prince Edward Island, on how truly corrupt these […]
Yes, a cheery title for an article, but we are in a serious business, for unless the Supreme Court decides otherwise, Parliament must come up with a law for ‘physician-assisted suicide’ by this February. The government has petitioned the Court for a six month extension, but one way or the other, a law is coming […]
*A Happy New Year to all of our readers, and may 2016 bring you all many joys and blessings, even if there are a few crosses and sufferings along the way. As the Catechism reminds us in the words of Saint Rose of Lima “apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which […]
Marc Bauerlein has an insightful essay on false innocence in the recent issue of First Things, describing those who feign an innocence that, perhaps at some level they think they have, but, deeper down, in their heart of hearts, in that still, small voice of conscience I alluded to in my last post, they know […]