A Meditation for Lent
Jewish rabbis have a useful word to describe the attitude of a believer to Sacred Scripture. The word is mashal, and it is used...
Conscience protection and why it matters
According to the latest data from Statistics Canada, 2,614 Canadians chose death by euthanasia or physician assisted suicide between January and October, 2018. This...
Second Sunday of Advent: The Baptist’s Call to Repentance
The nations shall inquire of him, and his dwelling shall be glorious (Is. 11:10).
The Gospel of the Mass on this second Sunday of Advent...
Star Farce: A Study in How to Ruin a Franchise
I thought the Star Wars franchise, so successful and cinema-transforming in the late seventies and early eighties, was ruined by the three prequels in...
Smiley Miley
The Gospel on the memorial of the beheading of Saint John the Baptist, which we celebrated last week, recounts the story Herod, Herodias, his...
The Totalitarian Imposition of Euthanasia in Canada
The story of euthanasia in Canada officially began a year ago this February 6th, when the Supreme Court of Canada decreed that the laws...
Josef Pieper on Death and Immortality
“I am the resurrection and the life. He that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives...
The Precipitous Prelate and the Prudential Pope
Newton’s Third Law has many applications, as does Hegel’s dialectic of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, in that eternal struggle of the World Spirit – even in the...
Pope Benedict on Pope Saint Leo the Great
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 5 March 2008
Saint Leo the Great
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Continuing our journey through the Fathers of the Church, true...
Sometimes, Alas, Arguing is Futile
Jesus provides us with a motive for acting, viz., the love of God, which in practical terms produces a love of our neighbours. That’s...
