Quinquagesima Sunday
When I was a child, I spoke as child; I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a...
Truthful Repentance
Our Lady of Sorrows is a fitting memorial at this time in the Church’s history which, to put things in rather banal terms, is...
TWU, Where are You?
Back in June of this year, I wrote a piece on the travails of Trinity Western University, and how they had been refused accreditation...
Benedict XVI: An Apologia for a ‘Smaller Church’
“I had studied Ratzinger's writings in advance and especially his diagnoses of the times. And I was somewhat stunned to see that Ratzinger's analyses...
The Dreadful but Hopeful Dream of the Two Pillars
Try to picture yourselves with me on the seashore, or, better still, on an outlying cliff with no other land in sight. The vast...
Personhood and Abortion:Â A Historical Review in the Catholic Tradition
Introduction
In 1973 the controversial Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in the United States. In that first year alone, about 700,000 abortions...
Alleluia, He is Risen!
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden...
Hollywood’s Sense of Sin
In a radio address on October 26, 1946, with the horrors of World War II still fresh (if such be the term) in the...
19th Sunday and Finding the Wisdom of the Cross
For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own people, my kindred according...
Pope Benedict and Martha’s Way
BENEDICT XVI
ANGELUS
Courtyard of the Papal Residence, Castel Gandolfo
Sunday, 18 July 2010
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
We are now in the heart of summer, at least in...
