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...

First Sunday: The Hope and Joy of Lent

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

First Sunday of Lent: Our Mess, and God’s Remedy

(A helpful meditation from parish priest Father Robert Weaver. I couldn't help but just add as an intro that I'm intrigued by the three...

Loving Your Home

Sometime contributor to these pages, Rebecca Jacobson - and her own Mum - have a delightful and quite lovely blog, lovingyourhome, which is well...

Canada at the Gates of…

“It is gravely unjust to enact laws that legalize euthanasia or justify and support suicide, invoking the false right to choose a death improperly...

Trials, Purification and Transfiguration

And He was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white (Mt. 17:2). On the second Sunday...

400th Anniversary of Saint Joseph as Patron of Canada

In 1624, Father Joseph LeCaron, an early Recollet missionary here in Canada, consecrated this land to Saint Joseph, adopting him as the nation's patron...

Third Sunday and Thirsting at the Well For the Water of Life

‘Give me a drink’ (Jn. 4:7). The conversation of Our Lord and the Samaritan woman revolves around the gift of water. This request is presented...

Christ Comes to Meet Us, To Take Away our Sins

As we journey through the beautiful season of Lent the Church has provided us with some magnificent Gospel readings. In the First Sunday of...