MAiD and Salvific Suffering
In 2016, two weeks after it was legalized in Canada, a patient asked for my help in referring her for Medical Assistance in Dying...
The Most Holy Trinity
He who believes in him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name...
Twelfth Sunday: Living the Truth Without Compromise
Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? (Job. 38:1).
We do well to consider the meaning of this question, posed by God...
Heroism, Then and Now
“Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, while others have greatness thrust upon them”. So wrote Shakespeare in Twelfth Night .
‘Greatness’ may take...
Three Reasons Why Celebrating the Circumcision of Jesus is a Great Way to Start...
(Mikyele Schramm has a few thoughts on the feast of the Circumcision of Christ, commemorated on the octave of Christmas, the first day of...
Ad Multos Annos, Father Alphonse de Valk, Fifty Years a Priest.
It is fitting on this feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of life, that we offer a hearty and warm congratulations to Father...
Solzhenitsyn’s Century
When once a certain class of people has been placed by temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value,...
Of Hawking, the Ides and the Demise of the Canadian Family
I am still pondering the providential serendipity of Stephen Hawking’s death yesterday, the math whiz going to meet His God on pi day. A...
The Pieta’s Anamnesis: Memory and Consolation in the Eternal City
A visit to Rome prompts the author to reflect upon his own journey to Catholicism. It was not rational argument that shipwrecked the mind...
One Species of Human?
I'm not sure how much of Dr. Robin May's presentation (posted below) of the human fossil record is science, or fiction - like most...
