MAiD and Salvific Suffering

In 2016, two weeks after it was legalized in Canada, a patient asked for my help in referring her for Medical Assistance in Dying...

Fifth Sunday: The Salt of the Earth and Light to the World

‘You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hidden’ (Mt. 5:14). Imagine the astonishment of those who heard...

Sixth Sunday – Fulfilling the Law

If you choose, you can keep the commandments, and they will save you… has not commanded anyone to be wicked, and He has...

Musical Offering: Ecce Sacerdos Magnus

In honour of the new archbishop-elect to Canada's largest diocese, for our musical selection this week, we offer two version of the great motet...

D.I.E. – The Triad of a New Religion

Part III (b) – O Equity! Aequitas in Perspective With the division of labour, …which in its turn is based on the natural division of labour...

The God of Love: Christ in the Song of Songs

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for...

Sunday Poem: A Riddle

The Professor loved to laugh. Social propriety piqued him. Practiced in the Grand Art of Comedy, he was an untiring scoffer; an assailant on the dismal.   He knew...

A Primer for Our Lenten Pilgrimage

‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him’ (Mt. 4:11). On Ash Wednesday we begin the observance of the holy season of Lent with...

The Backstory of the Daily News: Notes on Science, Politics and Gnosticism by Eric...

(Eric Voeglin (1901-1985) was a German political philosopher, who narrowly escaped the Gestapo, and spent most of his life in America. He wrote voluminously,...

Matthew’s Lessons on Lenten Humility

If one can get past the nauseating image of John the Baptist dining on locusts, (which may our own lot soon - Ed.) chapter...