The Sad Interview with Jean Vanier Supporting Medical Aid in Dying
Alas, the capitulations continue. A few days ago, I listened on the CBC to an interview with the great Jean Vanier, the founder of...
Alas for Canada
What is one to say? The results speak for themselves, with the east more or less going 'liberal', the Prairies and Alberta going 'conservative',...
Spring thaw, Eel’s Creek
Our January 2013 cover artist, Francis Dvorak, holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. He studied painting under Michael John Angel, a student of Pietro...
A Church reacting well, wisely, and properly
We haven’t heard very much about the so-called clergy abuse crisis recently, but you can be sure that if the mainstream media manages to...
A papal revolution
There I was in late July, driving to work at 7:30 am, content and peaceful after a weekend with friends in their rural Ontario...
The Extraordinary Ordinary
Last Saturday was the feast of the Triumph of the Cross and for me, this one has always been a conundrum of a feast...
Irenaeus of Lyons, Bishop and Martyr
Saint Irenaeus is the saint of the day, the vigil of Saints Peter and Paul.  He was bishop of Lyons in what is now France, a...
Live by Truth, or Die by Lies
We’re living in an era of obfuscation or, to frame the matter more bluntly, a veritable blizzard of lies, ones that are difficult to...
Of Popes, Potentates and Princes Royal
May 18th would have been Pope Saint John Paul II's 98th birthday, which would be old even for the oldest of Popes. Benedict, the...
Things real and wonderful
Recently I came across quote from C. S. Lewis that said:
"In a sense a child does not long for fairy land as a boy...
