A Tale of Two Benedicts
Today is the 92nd birthday of Pope Emeritus Benedict, who - with the exception, as we just witnessed, of the occasional 'intervention' as 'Pope...
Pope Saint John Paul II’s Last Passion Sunday
(This is the last of Pope Saint John Paul II's Passion-Palm Sunday homilies, given in 2004, before his own passion and death the following...
Providence and a Thief’s Goodness
Last year on Palm Sunday we heard the passion from Saint Mark’s Gospel, and next year it will be from Saint Matthew. Each is...
The Ratzinger Report Revisited
The Italian journalist and Catholic convert Vittorio Messori in 1985 published his two hundred page interview with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict...
A Letter to a Catholic School Teacher
(What follows is adapted from a letter of a parish priest, Father Scott Murray, to a Catholic school teacher, in the publicly-funded, separate system,...
Instant Conversion
One feature of the Gospel for this Fifth Sunday of Lent has intrigued many readers: Jesus’s writing on the ground with his finger. For...
Justice in the Prodigal Son
So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was...
The Layered Meaning of the Prodigal Son
In 1861, John William Burgon, the (Anglican) dean of Chichester cathedral, preached a sermon...
Pope Saint John Paul II’s Last Lent
Here is Pope Saint John
Paul II’s final Lenten meditation, which he finished on September 8th,
2005 – the birthday of Our Lady -...
Losing Canada
When the cross atop Mount
Royal was first erected in 1924, the Montreal
Gazette described it as “a memorial to the survival of the...