When Public Industry Goes Private

For years, we thought there were things “only government could do.”  Interestingly those things have fallen by the wayside and are now going private while government tries to do something else it thinks only it can do.  It makes one wonder if…

The SSPX rupture with tradition

The Society of St. Pius X is “open” to dialogue until it isn’t. Its alleged “openness” is contingent upon the conversation taking place only if it does so based upon the Society’s ground rules. In stark terms, what the Society is asserting is…

Do Lent! – The Catholic Thing

Lent is in full swing now. If you are like me, you enter this season full of determination and enthusiasm: My prayer will be deeper. My penance will be purer. My almsgiving will be richer. And may it well be so for all of us! But if you are like…