The Real Holy Family
It has always been difficult for the homilist to preach on the feast of the Holy Family. In the old days, the priest would...
The Search for English Catholic Hymnody
Catholics have praised God in song for the entirety of the faith’s history. Various expressions of devotion have given rise to countless compositions, and...
Calum and Tina’s Childless Choice: A Reflection on Parenthood
The headlines proclaimed it, in a his and her perspective, on why a young-ish, urbanite couple plan never and, they mean never, never, never...
Death and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy
“Pray as much as you can for the dying. By your entreaties, obtain for them trust in My mercy, because they have most need...
Fifth Sunday: The Church’s Mission to Each Individual Soul
I do it all for the sake of the Gospel, so that I may share in its blessings (1 Cor. 9:23).
St. Paul’s passionate words...
The Purifying Fire of Truth
Twentieth Sunday Per Annum (C) August 18, 2019.
Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you,...
Almsgiving in the Twenty-first Century
“Grace builds on nature.” (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
This statement from Saint Thomas’s Summa expresses in succinct form the theological insight that creation and redemption are...
Of Grace, Gratitude and Grievance
All we hear is the negative stuff; nobody’s interested in the positive, the joy in that school. Nine of the happiest years of my...
The Bloody Elephant in the Room: Abortion and Western Canada
Once upon a time, there was a strange belief that the importance of a “free press” lay not only in the existence of independent,...
The Holy Shroud of Turin, Revisited
(As we enter into these last days of Advent, and the 'O Antiphons', the Incarnation of the Son of God as the Messiah becomes...
