McLuhan Amongst Moralists: A Retrospective
This retrospective column, from the great professor David Dooley, no stranger to readers of these pages, is curiously prescient in its view of technology,...
The Last Gospel as the Mass in Miniature
The prologue of the Gospel of St. John (Jn 1:1–14), often referred to as the Last Gospel, forms part of the concluding rites of...
Holy Thursday: The Institution of the Holy Eucharist
The most vital characteristic of our Catholic faith is not its external organization that has of late, thanks to Pope Francis, attracted the attention...
What’s Wrong with the World? Well, The Hatred of Words, and the Word
I suspect there are few people left who don’t think there’s something very wrong in the world today, whatever their political and moral leanings...
Fifth Sunday of Easter: Offering Diakonia
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people; in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts...
Christ’s Universal Grace
Saint Paul’s letter to the Romans is based on a parallel between the figures of Adam and Jesus Christ. In the Bible, Adam is...
Why Holy Saturday?
Holy Saturday is the day in-between Good Friday and the Easter Vigil, when the Church is silent, bells go quiet, Churches are stripped and...
Systemic Blindness
How can you fight something you cannot see properly?—An Officer in Training with Canadian Armed Forces
As Canada languishes in this protracted period of medical...
The Unspoken Heresy of Christ the Wimp
The powerlessness of Jesus. In a word, it is one of our modern heresies, but it lies hidden in the heart because it is...
Pope Benedict’s Last Epiphany Homily
(In Canada, and other locales, the Solemnity of the Epiphany is moved to the following Sunday, for 'pastoral reasons'. But in the Church universal,...