It is always a joy to see how the graduates of Catholic education bring such varied and wonderful gifts for the service of God‘s beautiful world. ... and Firefly is the best SciFi series ever

Only Scott Walker can make Chesterton sound ghetto.

Big First at SILC! #SILCFamily

And it would be nice if Term 2 brought some July weather. So, summer... come at us too!

Solzhenitsyn makes for some fairly heavy reading, but the man was a prophet.

Fascinating and chilling, frankly. How do we get out of this when tech is so pervasive in our children's lives?

Check out the good news item from @StIsidore_EICS Elk Island Catholic Schools @grandinmedia Chesterton Academy promises classical education with modern elements of fun grandinmedia.ca/chesterton-aca…

The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times.

A man does not yield when the mere universe has turned against him; he yields when his own heart has turned against him. We surrender, not when circumstances are miserable, but when we are miserable.

The old idea of liberality was that it was a good thing that all the creeds should dispute freely; the new idea of liberality is that there should be no creeds to dispute.

Yielding to a temptation is like yielding to a blackmailer: you pay to be free, and find yourself the more enslaved.

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

Belloc vs. Tolkien: Two Views of Anglo-Saxon England (essay by Joseph Pearce) ow.ly/xB6X50BRHCd

As a matter of fact, the Conservative has exactly the same error as the Progressive. It consists in the fact that each of them allows truth to be determined by time. That is, he judges a thing by whether it is of yesterday or today or tomorrow, and not by what it is in eternity.

The Gandalf Option. Alan Jacobs via The Trinity Forum #transcription of audio interview

Guess I'd be silly not to retweet this kindness. Thanks ACSTA! #ibelieveinCatholicEd

What a wonderful surprise!

Chief J. Wilton "Willie" Littlechild and Archbishop Richard Smith are offering this joint video statement on #Kamloops215, and on reconciliation. Littlechild was a former Grand Chief of #Treaty6, and was a commissioner of the TRC. #Alberta Watch: youtu.be/fPtpgvlsPAw

God is not a symbol of goodness. Goodness is a symbol of God.

In the mystical triad of faith, hope & charity, it's obvious Christmas stands for charity, and among the more fortunate, for faith. Equally obviously the New Year may well stand for hope. And equally proverbially it does stand for those virile & creative hopes we call resolutions