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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless (G.K. Chesterton)

Vivaldi’s Autumn

Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) - a Catholic priest, but who spent much of his time as a composer than a pastor due, as he confessed, to his own precarious health. but also, likely,...

Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things which have been accomplished among us, just as they were delivered to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and...

Teresa’s True Concept of What a Friend We Have in Jesus

On this, the 'ides' of October, the fifteenth, mid-month, we celebrate the great mystic and doctor of the Church, Teresa of Avila (+1582) who, along with her male contemporary Saint John of the Cross,...

The Limits of Science, Making Moral Choices and Keeping Our Eyes on the Horizon

I have an article published in Catholic World Report, on the Limits of Science and how science might - and might not - guide what moral decisions we make. Peruse as you will, and...

Bach’s Cello Suite 5

J.S. Bach wrote six suites for unaccompanied cello, composed between 1717 and 1723, are amongst the commonly performed works for the instrument, and rightly so, for in them his genius shines starkly forth (but,...

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else. (Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman, +1890)

An Open Letter to the President of the University of Guelph

Dr. Byram W. Bridle, PhD, who is Associate Professor of Viral Immunology, Department of Pathobiology at the University of Guelph has, in his own words, 'had his life ruined' because, in a rational and...

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