Chronicles from the Front

Benedict XVI is no longer Pope. It has been for me a real bereavement. I loved, I can’t say the man, which is reductive, so let’s say t...

I should have commented on the November elections right away. Or probably it wasn’t necessary. The few who read this blog should know well...

Now we can't but wait for Wednesday 7 to know the result of the elections. Where my preference goes should be well known. Not because I ...

Anybody, with the ambition to be like Obama in 2008 presented himself as being, i.e. post-partisan and post-racial, can't but hope for h...

The Islamic world is afire. Off against America, and what it means in the mind of the rioters and those who inspire them. We are told: ...

In inviting President Barack Obama to the Al Smith Dinner, NY Archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan has exposed himself to criticism on the gr...

A lot of things I am brooding about, requiring to be spoken about all at once, but hard to be kept within the bounds of a post. ...