Why Confess Our Sins?
The Catholic Encyclopedia explains that a sacrament “is an outward sign instituted by Christ to impart grace to the soul.” All Christians believe in...
TWU, Where are You?
Back in June of this year, I wrote a piece on the travails of Trinity Western University, and how they had been refused accreditation...
The Gift of a Consecrated Life
We need some good news stories, and I was witness to one yesterday, as Sister Margaret Mary MacGrath of the Sisters of Our Lady...
Conformity to God, Not To the World
The godless say, ‘let us wait for the righteous one, who makes life inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; who reproaches us for...
Blessed Nicholas of Gesturi
The 8th of June also marks the liturgical memorial of Blessed Nicholas of Gesturi. Who was this lay brother? Why is his example so...
A Philosophical Brexit
Already the effects of the Brexit are rippling through the world: The British currency has taken a record nosedive, the stock market is tottering,...
Fighting For Truth With Fists – and Feet
(I've always had this suspicion that traditional martial arts tend more towards 'arts' than 'martial'. Their emphasis on complex katas and techniques, which display...
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...
The Paradox of Parables
You have just heard one of the parables of Jesus, quite a complicated one. It accomplishes what a parable is supposed to do: it...
On Martyrdom and True Religious Freedom
Carl Sundell has a very a propos article today in Catholic Insight on the remarkable Frank Sheed (+1982), a Catholic lay apologist who emphasized...
