The Normality of Modification: Might CRISPR Be a Possible ‘Cure’ for Down Syndrome?
Imagine going grocery shopping and picking up a can of beans only to see that the top had been dented. Seeing this, you instinctively...
Blessed Apollinaire Morel of Posat
Jean-Jacques Morel was born in a village in the proximity of Fribourg in Switzerland on June 12, 1739. He came into the world after...
Life Is Fragile, So Use The Good Dishes
One of the greatest lessons learned during my nursing career is the fragility of human life. Many times when a patient and their loved...
Philomela – A Poem
"Philomela"
A lark sings through the hellish gloom;
Calls out to her Author.
Praising, loving, she cries her tune,
Piercing my ears to bother.
A lonely cry, muffled and...
Mozart’s Et Incarnatus Est
Mozart's Great Mass in C Major, the 'Coronation Mass', Krönungsmesse - so called since it was a favorite of the imperial court, performed often...
Agape Love
Theresa of Avila wrote that “love is like a perfume-filled room.” Could it be that we can only describe such an ineffable concept using...
Debacle in Hong Kong and the Church
When Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced the withdrawal of the extradition bill that triggered the largest and longest protests in that city’s history, protest leaders...
Queenship of Mary
The 22nd of August of the feast of the Queenship of Mary, which this year falls on a Sunday, one week after the Assumption....
Quinquagesima Sunday
When I was a child, I spoke as child; I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a...
Father Jonathan Robinson, C.O., Requiescat in Pace
Father Jonathan Robinson, C.O. the founding superior of the Toronto Oratory, has just gone to eternity, after a brief illness. Ordained in 1962, just...
