Where is the wise man?
BY Alan Fimister
“I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding…
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Of millstones and strange flesh
BY Alan Fimister
“Western mass media is extraordinarily effective in fostering within the general public enormous sympathy for beliefs and practices that are…
READ MOREConscientious responsibilities and frightful consequences
BY Alan Fimister
Elections are in the forefront of many minds at the moment. The people of Canada will soon go to the…
READ MORERes Publica Christiana
BY Alan Fimister
“There is no justice save in that Republic whose founder and ruler is Christ” (St Augustine) It is not often…
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BY Alan Fimister
“Put not your trust in princes: in the children of men, in whom there is no salvation” (Ps 146:3) As…
READ MORESay not the struggle nought availeth
BY Alan Fimister
As you may have heard, Donald J Trump has recently been re-elected President of the United States of America, taking…
READ MORESomething for nothing? — a very timely book on the evils of usury
BY Alan Fimister
The earth and all it contains was given by God at the creation of the world to the human race…
READ MOREChrysopolis
BY Alan Fimister
18 September this year will be the 1,700th anniversary of the Battle of Chrysopolis in 324. The battle was in…
READ MOREImpurity: Sermon on the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
BY St Alphonsus Maria Liguori
“And behold, there was a certain man before him, who had the dropsy.” (Lk 14:2) The man who indulges in…
READ MOREThe conditions of peace
BY Alan Fimister
“[W]hat king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he…
READ MOREPerplexity and service
BY Alan Fimister
It is rumoured that Pope Francis may soon issue some new document placing further restrictions upon the Usus antiquior or even prohibit…
READ MOREBe of good cheer, I have overcome the world
BY Alan Fimister
G. K. Chesterton once remarked that the Catholic Church is the only power on earth capable of saving a man…
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