Ryan N.S. Topping
Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?
College professors sometimes have too much time on their hands. While digging around in the crypt of an old medieval library in Oxford, I...
Catechism in Stone
To produce a “catechism in stone”—that’s how one of North America’s leading architects describes the work of building and city planning. I recently had...
‘Marking the transition’
Being from the prairies, one of the habits my mother instilled in me as a boy was to take off my shoes whenever I...
Where man meets mercy
Carl Jung (1875-1961), one of the fathers of modern psychology, once apparently quipped that in all his years of therapy he only ever met...
Standing on holy ground
Of all the neglected places in church, after the confessional, I’m sure it is the floor. Perhaps that’s for good reason. After Mass, and...
What’s in a dome?
Children of divorce, researchers say, often enter adult life with an impaired memory. No one knows for sure why their childhoods seem less vivid....
The very stones would cry out
Perhaps you haven’t noticed them? Over the past several months, at the top of each of these editorials, has been an original sketch of...
Open wide the doors of Faith
It was an awkward moment. Our friend Angela loves to swim. As the mother of three, she invariably arrives at the pool tired, and...
The tabernacle and the feast
The Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a religious community or a parish community. - Paul...
The grammar of worship
Photo: Sketch of St. Dunstan's Basilica, Charlottetown, PEI by Heinz Klassen.
Ever read an email that made you wince? I don’t mean because of off-colour...
