The Good in Suffering and the Evil of Euthanasia
According to a recent poll, eighty-six percent of Catholics in Canada are in support of allowing Canadians with a grievous and irremediable illness to...
The Equality Act and Its Follies
He created them male and female; and blessed them: and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. Genesis 5, v 2.
Last...
Echoes of Ronald Knox and C.S. Lewis
Some years ago I wrote rather a long winded play, Shaw vs Chesterton, an imaginary debate between two great friends, G.K. Chesterton and Bernard...
Third Sunday: Purifying the House of the Father
‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace! (Jn. 2:16).
The cleansing of the Temple speaks to the nature and...
True Christian Tolerance
In Lent we pledge ourselves to acquire virtue. The one, perhaps the only, virtue universally honoured today is tolerance. It is a useful Lenten...
Lent’s Little Lights
One of the most beautiful uplifting things that helps me stay focused on Lent is the theme of light. In his Angelus address of Sunday 28 February 2021,...
Almsgiving in the Twenty-first Century
“Grace builds on nature.” (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
This statement from Saint Thomas’s Summa expresses in succinct form the theological insight that creation and redemption are...
When I Die, Do I Want to Be a…Tree?
This phrase recently appeared in the Ottawa Citizen in an article on the greening of death, a quote from Susan Koswan, a Waterloo writer...
A Brief History of Eminent Atheists
Here is a sober thought. Let us suppose we might be looking for the first atheists in the history of the world. My candidates...
The Feast of the Chair of Peter
On Monday February 22 we celebrate the Feast of the Chair of St Peter. What do we mean by the Chair of Peter and...
