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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 discovered an ancient forgotten manuscript. Here is what I can...
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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 the privilege of speaking with Mr. Dino Marcantonio—a native of...
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‘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 entered a home. It never occurred to me that you...
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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 a handful of Catholics. Jews and Protestants were his bread...
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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 the fourteen feet with which our children grind mud, raisons,...
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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. One explanation is that memory works best when it can...
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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 an exemplary Canadian Catholic church. Over the next few months,...
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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 a little weary. I am not sure if she had...
