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Columns
Liberal Complaisance
As this interminable election process lumbers on, like a dying African elephant stumbling through the savannah, only to curl up beside some fetid swamp, we, the electorate, are in the danger of ennui, and...
Columns
Feminine Genius
The call-in show a week or two ago on the CBC, as I enjoyed my very first kefir smoothie (quite enjoyable, in fact, made more so as I thought it was not invented by,...
Columns
Reason and the Refugee
Following on my last post on the 'refugee crisis': One danger in a situation like this, especially one of its global impact, is to act purely on the basis of emotion, a gut reaction...
Articles
The Refugee Question
The lifeless body of the 2 year old Aylan Kurdi lying face down on a beach has caused outrage around the world (I have shown him here alive and laughing, as he may well...
Articles
Smiley Miley
The Gospel on the memorial of the beheading of Saint John the Baptist, which we celebrated last week, recounts the story Herod, Herodias, his unlawful wife (who had been married to his brother), Herodias’...
Articles
Laudato Si: A Commentary on Magisterial Ecology
In light of Pope Francis' call for September 1st to be a day dedicated to prayer for the environment and ecology, here is a post I wrote soon after the publication of the encyclical...
Editor's Corner
A New Mission
Welcome, Dear Reader,
As most of you have heard by now, Catholic Insight, for reasons that were primarily financial, decided earlier this year to cease print publication.
After some discussion and reflection, the Board of Catholic...
Editor's Corner
Priority of Sports
As the world burns, and our Supreme Court here in Canada is about to decide tomorrow on whether or not physicians should be permitted by law to kill their sick patients, a word on...
