The shocking sights that the world was subjected to on January 6, 2021, as Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol in Washington D.C. should not have taken any careful observer of the Trump presidency by surprise. It was the day some of us had been dreading and fearing for a long...

It seems obvious that the frontline of the medical profession, our family doctors, were overlooked in the planning stage when purchase orders were being placed. No matter what you hear in the media about getting vaccinated ASAP, this is more fiction than reality. As the Trump Administration was unprepared to...

All age groups are dealing with specific challenges, but grandma and grandpa are in a group by themselves. As parents you still have many decades ahead of you to make new memories with your children, but sad as it is to state the obvious, grandparents are on a reverse countdown....

Narcissists like Trump are, by definition, too self-absorbed to be able to care about the collective welfare. When a president cares more about his chances for re-election than about the death of 250,000+ people and insists that, “We are rounding the corner" when in fact we’re heading into an unprecedented...

Diversity doesn’t apply only to the moral character of individuals within the group, it applies also to their ideology: some are more conservative than others. While some are more empathetic to the plight of the poorest and the most disadvantaged in society, others are more focused on their own individual...

Pasquale’s approach to cuisine and the tremendous respect he has for natural ingredients can best be illustrated by his quip that the difference between being a chef in the USA and in Italy is that, “here in the USA we are the chefs, whereas in Italy we are all sous...

What exactly is the role of the papacy? Ostensibly the pope is the spiritual head of the church. More realistically, we should conclude that it is a political office. Encyclicals have always functioned not only as spiritual guidance, but as political statements. I don’t question Christian values, though I prefer...

“I wanted to show two things with my camera: the things that had to be appreciated, and the things that had to be corrected. Photography reveals beauty and truth. And truth sometimes is not very pleasant. I learned about the power of the camera when I was trying to take...

The idea that women could only be ridiculous as leaders has persisted for a couple of millennia and is now embedded in our culture.What happened in the past does not count, we now have the chance to elect a female vice-president and make history. This time it's serious because should...

Cancel culture, as a weapon of political correctness, is the enemy of free speech. When it starts dictating what can be said and what cannot be said, then democracy is at death’s door. Young people should be the most open and tolerant of a diversity of views. And yet according...