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,...
Honour and Ambition: Thoughts on the Requirements for Political Office
Politics is a curious business, and not just in the United States the Big Day approaches:Â Here in Ontario, Canada, about a four hour...
The Courage of Bishop Michael Power: Crucial For Our Times Â
In 1842, when Father Michael Power, a Haligonian born of Irish parents, was consecrated as the first bishop of the newly formed Diocese of...
Life is Not a Fairy Tale
When a person gets everything that she wants, when she has all the things that she thinks she needs, and life is being wonderfully...
Systemic Blindness
How can you fight something you cannot see properly?âAn Officer in Training with Canadian Armed Forces
 As Canada languishes in this protracted period of medical...
May the Fourth Be With You and The Shroud of Turin
Besides being 'Star Wars Day' May the Fourth is also, more realistically, the traditional commemoration of the Shroud of Turin, claimed to be the...
Cathedral of the Left
The present vast overpopulation, now far beyond the world carrying capacity, cannot be answered by future reductions in the birth rate due to contraception,...
Chrysostom, Siloam and Hurricanes
Saint John Chrysostom (+407), an ascetic and contemplative monk who wanted only to retreat from the turmoil of life in the Eastern empire, was...
The Last Sunday of Advent
What follows is Pope Saint John Paul II's last Advent address, way back in 2004. He would go to his eternal reward three months...
Ben Nevis
When one first arrives in Scotland, everything seems a wee bit, well, smaller or, as they might put it, âwee-erâ. The streets are narrow,...
