Monday, December 1, 2025

Putting Covid in Perspective: A Reflection

(Even if one may not agree with everything herein - and who said we have to agree on everything? - this is certainly an...

The Quality of Mercy

(On this feast of the Holy Innocents, here is a reflection on true, and false, mercy by contributor Stephen Roney. We will have more...

Enneagram in Spiritual Direction: Paganism, Modernism or Valuable Tool?

Abstract Ā Are you an ā€œinvestigatorā€ or maybe a ā€œpeacemaker’ or someone who would be known as a ā€œhelperā€ or ā€œachiever?ā€ Maybe you are the enthusiastic...

Quo Vadis, Quebec?

ā€œIf the Church were to be removed from the world, in a short time the world would end.ā€ St. John Henry Newman Twenty years ago,...

Twelfth Sunday, Open Churches and the Return of the King

ā€˜Fear no one….Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven’ (Mt. 10: 26, 32). ā§¾ At long...

A Catholic Response to the Transgender Moment

The Catholic doctrine of the imago Dei Ā - that man is made in the very ā€˜image of God’ - looks perhaps simple at first...

All Saints, All Souls, All Hope

The month of November begins with the celebration of the glorious Feast of All Saints and the sacred liturgy directs our gaze to the...

Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko, Conscripted Priest, and Martyr for Conscience

Next month, October, marks the 40th anniversary of the abduction and murder of Blessed Father Jerzy Popiełuszko (1947-1984). He was a Polish Roman Catholic...

Enforcing the Party Line – Or is that Lie?

We shall proclaim destruction – why? why? – well, Because the idea is so fascinating. But we must get a little exercise. We’ll have a few...
Pope St. John Paul II

Pope Saint John Paul II Reflects on the Salvific Cross

(An excerpt from a homily preached by Pope Saint John Paul II in Lesotho, in 1988): In the Gospel of this feast we are witnesses...