Yearly Archives: 2013

Homophobia: Or, why gays are like spiders.

In my search for an apartment in LA, I came across a Craigslist posting for two people looking for a third roommate. In their...

Pain: God’s Megaphone

All manifestations of God, like the Blessed Sacrament, are concealments as well. Everywhere God is veiled; Everywhere he works underground; Everywhere he sets up...

Archbishop Prendergast supports private Catholic schools

The following are remarks given by Archbishop Prendergast at the Wayside Academy Gala on Saturday, 8 June 2013. You can read an account and...

Thomas

Can you imagine what it would be like to watch your best friend being tortured to death? Nearly naked—missing most of his clothing and...

The trouble with revolutions

In the first chapter of The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emma Orczy paints a gruesome image of the dark side of revolutions. She writes that the...

Canada’s March for Life 2013

Campaign Life Coalition is a national pro-life organization that defends the human race against social injustices such as abortion, euthanasia, and physician-assisted suicide. Their...

Shhh

The quiet scares me ‘cause it screams the truth. - P!nk, "Sober" It was late at night, and the rest of my family was asleep....

Grown Up Friends

When I was younger, my friends would talk about what it would be like to be a “grown up.” They all seemed to be...

Dominion Day

July 1, 1867: the day when three British colonies became four provinces of the new Dominion of Canada. Canada’s Confederation Day or, as it used...

Chiara Lubich

“The Focolare Movement is an international movement inspired by the Gospel that works for unity in all spheres of life. For over sixty years...