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...
Pope Benedict and Saint Bartholomew
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Saint Peter's Square
Wednesday, 4 October 2006
Bartholomew
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In the series on the Apostles called by Jesus during his earthly life, today...
Seeing By Humility
‘Son of David, have mercy on me’ (Mk. 10:47). ⧾
The request made by Bartimaeus in his encounter with Our Lord reveals two things: the...
The Governor General’s Hubris and Anti-Intellectualism
On November 1, Governor General (GG) Julie Payette was a keynote speaker at the Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa. She touched upon a...
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...
Second Sunday: Do Whatever He Tells You
His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you’ (Jn. 2:5). ⧾
In the Gospel of St. John which we have just heard,...
Dumbing Down the Voting Age
I have an article published this morning in Crisis, on the necessity of reappropriating and reinstantiating beautiful liturgical music, which the Church describes as...
Thoughts on a Pestilence
Let’s see.
Housebound by this COVID-19 crisis, I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube videos. Probably more than reasonable people might consider healthy. Nevertheless, this...
Ireland’s Last Domino
”This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and...
Losing Canada
When the cross atop Mount
Royal was first erected in 1924, the Montreal
Gazette described it as “a memorial to the survival of the Canadian people,
whose...