Kavanaugh’s Inquisition
One knows not what to say at times, as events spiral faster than one’s capacity to comment on them; even one’s reflection is superseded:...
The Inestimable Value of a Pilgrimage
Just as the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord, we might say that the first step on the road to sanctity is...
Demolishing Secular Pretensions: Assisted Suicide, the Media and Relativism
The other day, I sent a friend a couple of articles regarding Ontario’s first legal assisted suicide including John Paul Meenan’s “The Totalitarian Imposition...
Tales of Canterbury
(A re-posting of my reflections, nearly two years ago now, of my pilgrimage to Canterbury, in light of today's memorial to one of her...
The Christian and Depression
I strongly encourage anyone who is discouraged or depressed to read the third chapter of the book of Tobit. In this passage, two people...
Twelfth Sunday: Persevering to the End
Fear no one….Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven (Mt. 10: 26, 32).
Our Lord addresses...
Tolkien’s Devotion to Thomas More
As a prayerful and traditional Catholic, Tolkien had a profound devotion to many saints. Foremost, of course, was the Blessed Virgin Mary, upon whom, as...
Fourth Sunday of Easter and the Voice of the Divine Shepherd
I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep (Jn. 10:11).
Today is Good Shepherd Sunday and as we...
The State as Corrupting
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” ― Leo Tolstoy
If you peruse the Showbiz section of any...
Saint Thomas and Merit
(Here is, for your perusal, Saint Thomas' teaching on charity - or divine-like love, 'willing the good' - is the principle of merit, rather...
