Monday, September 15, 2025

A Protestant Gentleman, Predestined?

He was a good man, in the old Scottish Presbyterian phrase, God-ward and man-ward. - Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary Leslie Hamilton Neatby who died...

Is University Worth It?

As cliché as it sounds, we are living in unprecedented times.  This is no less true in colleges and universities than it is elsewhere. ...

A 21st Century Dies Irae – in Conversation with Composer Thomas Crow

Please introduce yourself and your relationship with Faith and Music. My name is Thomas Crow and I am a Catholic Composer from Wakefield in England....

Whither our Sanctity?

If you were to consult a catalogue of saints, you would not find the name of Zacchaeus listed. Do you recall who he was—the...

Manliness, Courage and the Fear of Death

I recently returned from a trip to visit my family in Montreal and spend some time with old friends in the countryside nearby.  Across...

Every Life’s Sacred, or None Are

Jesus provides us with a motive for acting, viz., the love of God, which in practical terms produces a love of our neighbours. The...

Covid 2: The Sequel

The World Health Organization’s special envoy on COVID-19 has urged world leaders to stop using lockdowns as the primary control method against the spread...

Little Black Lives—Do They Matter?

Anyone who believes that God is the Author of all life and loves us unconditionally (and even many who don’t believe this) would instinctively...

Mission Sunday, Gospel, Church and Anti-Church

‘Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s’ (Mt. 22: 21). â§Ÿ Today is World Mission...

What is Caesar’s, When All is God’s?

A clever writer once observed that Jesus never made the mistake of qualifying any of his statements: “Sell you possessions, and give the money...