06 Feb Here is a title
A controversy smoulders in the life of letters, of which gentle reader may be unaware. It may be detected from distant little whisps of smoke; occasionally it blazes, but far,...
03 Feb Reflections on the Love that Fulfills the Commandments
St Paul tells us that the Commandments are fulfilled when we love our neighbour as ourselves. As examples of the Commandments Paul mentions you shall not commit adultery, you shall...
01 Feb An Essay on Venard’s ‘Literary Thomism’
I Reginald, I cannot, because all I have written seems like straw in comparison with what I have seen! In these words, St Thomas Aquinas explained to his amanuensis why he could...
30 Jan How to breed monsters
For some centuries now, the method of the progressives has been certainly anti-clerical, and even Averroëist; yet it is commendably mediaeval for all that. It is to identify “a problem”...
27 Jan Why no one writes books any more
People ask why I don’t write books. Not many people, but some, and those happily among my readers. The subset of these readers who are publishers is nil. It is...