"Like the sun rising in the heights of the Lord, so is the beauty of a good wife in her well-ordered home." - Sirach

Over the past fortnight, some dozen churches in Canada, many serving indigenous people, were torched. 

In a previous article, I suggested that if you really wanted to see a vast and intricate systemic evil, working out in the open on all fronts, with every single important social institution going along, you need look no farther than at the system of family destruction, subheading inguinal.

It appears that I am doomed to hear the word "systemic" for the rest of my life.

A few weeks ago my wife and I spent an afternoon with some old friends, a retired couple who had just come back from their winter home in Florida.

If 10 or 20 holy places from any other major religion had been attacked, what would have been the reaction from governments and the media?

On the Fourth of July (even "as celebrated" on the 5th, as today), we all ought to be grateful for the freedoms of our American Revolution, imperfect though our history has been.

The history of Catholic immigrants to the United States and their descendants is exemplary of the American dream, and intertwined with the Democratic party.