No pontificate is well served when its promoters show contempt and belligerence toward perceived enemies. 

Not only has denying the full humanity of all biological human beings always been a mistake, it has shown itself repeatedly to be one of the worst mistakes we ever make. 

Some years ago, I sat next to a pleasant Norwegian lady who had just moved to London. Her father had been against the move.

"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.