In my latest National Post column I say the new Japanese drive-thru get-it-over-with funerals underline the emptiness of modernity.

In my latest National Post column, I say the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse enters dangerous, familiar territory when it starts telling the Catholic Church what it should think.

"We have spent 200 years rediscovering the futility of man unredeemed by God - what G.K. Chesterton called the immense sadness of paganism."

British Columbia Report August 9, 1993 [I did not record the writer's name]

"If there were anywhere on earth a resting place other than God, we may be very sure that the human soul in its long history would have found it before this."

Archbishop Fulton Sheen, quoted in National Review June 12, 1995

"If a man wants to worship the Life Force merely because it is a Force, he may very naturally worship it in the electric battery. I am tempted to say it will serve him right if he eventually worships the life force in the electric chair."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 5 # 3 (Dec. 2001)

In my latest National Post column I say Donald Trump recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel isn't just morally and historically right, it's common sense in terms of genuine negotiations.

"It is really a strange thing that there should not be room enough in the world for men to live, without cutting one another’s throats."

George Washington, in W.B. Allen, ed., Washington: A Collection

"All the will-worshippers, from Nietzsche to Mr. Davidson, are really quite empty of volition. They cannot will, they can hardly wish.... they always talk of will as something that expands and breaks out. But it is quite the opposite. Every act of will is an act of self-limitation.... In that sense every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else. That objection, which men of this school used to make to the act of marriage, is really an objection to every act.... Just as when you marry one woman you give up all the others, so when you take one course of action you give up all the other courses. If you become King of England, you give up the post of Beadle in Brompton. If you go to Rome, you sacrifice a rich suggestive life in Wimbledon. It is the existence of this negative or limiting side of will that makes most of the talk of the anarchic will-worshippers little better than nonsense. For instance, Mr. John Davidson tells us to have nothing to do with 'Thou shalt not'; but it is surely obvious that 'Thou shalt not' is only one of the necessary corollaries of 'I will.'"

G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy