Pope Saint John Paul II’s Last Lent
Here is Pope Saint John Paul IIâs final Lenten meditation, which he finished on September 8th, 2004 â the birthday of Our Lady -...
St. John de Matha, the Forgotten Friar
Every year on December 17 the church intones the âO antiphonsâ the joyous canticles in anticipation of the coming of Christ. But on the...
Mere Christianity: A Critical Analysis
The signature work of the most iconic Christian writer of the 20th century, C. S. Lewisâ Mere Christianity is a powerful weapon in the...
The Anti-Depressant Saint
If it 'twere not the Sixth Sunday of Easter, we would celebrate today one of the most joyful and idiosyncratic of saints, Philip Neri,...
For the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek’s Mission: A Spiritual Reflection
     Enterprise, what a God-haunted mission you are on. All around you there is light, star-shot and splintered in the endless skies through which you...
PTSD, Violence and Responsibility
Another day, another shooting, this time on American soil, at Fort Lauderdale International Airport. Details are still forthcoming, but the alleged perpetrator is a...
The Echo of Glencoe
On the way to the Highlands, about thirty or so miles north of Dumbarton, one passes through a valley of sombre beauty and history,...
Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power
(I thought a re-post of these thoughts from nearly five years ago now (!) was a propos, given our current Alice-in-Wonderland-cum-1984 world, making our...
The Trudeau Reckoning
When Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould publicly accused Justin Trudeau and his senior aides before a Commons Justice and Human Rights Committee in February of...
The Catholic âvoiceâ can help Canadians overcome the housing crisis
My wife and our friends recently read and discussed sections of Pope Leo XIIIâs timeless encyclical, Rerum Novarum. Pope Leo XIV's name inspired us...






















