The Flame of Love: The Spiritual Diary of Elizabeth Kindelmann
Elizabeth Kindelmann (1913 – 1985), a poor, Hungarian mother of six children, and a lay Carmelite, was widowed at the age of thirty-three. In...
Holy Week with the Saints
As Holy Week begins with Passion Sunday, we might turn to the saints, who can give us a helping hand during our meditation and...
Venantius and his Vexilla
Vexilla regis prodeunt; The banners of the king come forth;
fulget crucis mysterium, brightly gleams the mystery of...
I Am the Resurrection and the Life: Fifth Sunday and Passiontide
‘I am the resurrection and the life…Do you believe this’? (Jn. 11:25-26).
The fifth Sunday in Lent marks the beginning of Passiontide. We will now...
Beauty Bereft: What a Steam Tractor Can Tell us About our Culture
It is winter in Saskatchewan. My dad, brother, and grandmother came from Ontario back in mid-November to visit for the first time since I...
ESG – Environmental, Social and Governance – A Gift from the Greeks?
Cold Winds
ESG is the fashionable kid on the corporate governance block, and the cause of plenty of buzz among thought, political and business leaders. ...
The Trudeau-Biden Trouble With Truth
“What is truth?”
The famous question posed by Pontius Pilate to Jesus is operative in a unique way during Lent. It carries obvious relevance insofar...
Distinguishing Equalities
The third person of the unholy triad of the new religion is siamese and it is worth distinguishing between these twins since it may...
Jane Austen’s Sensible Conscience
It’s hard to contain my pleasure or my surprise at the continuing interest in Jane Austen. The more-or-less successful adaptations of her books for...
A True Fairy Tale
We have heard that “God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform,” a phrase that occurred to me as I listened to the...