The March for Life and the Contemplative Life
The annual March for Life is coming up in two days, this Thursday, May 10th, with Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral at 10:00 a.m.,...
Placating Tyrants and Playing Catch up with the Culture of Death
From Justin Trudeau’s eyebrow apparently falling off during a press scrum (apparently it may have been an optical illusion), to his tiff with President...
Of Work and Communists Bearing Gifts
In his 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens, Pope John Paul II defined work as 'any activity of man', contrary to our modern notion, so immersed in...
The god of the human body
A while back I worked with a gent whose health took an unexpected turn for the worse. Conventional and unconventional doctors were unable to...
Mother of the Church, Mazenod and Victoria Day
We celebrate today the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, an ancient title of the Virgin, which was formally instituted into the Holy...
The Mystery Hidden For Ages in God, or, Why Aren’t Catholics Holier Than They...
On his visit to our college a number of years ago, the late Jesuit priest and scholar Father Koterski mentioned a book that he...
People’s Republic of Insanity
Dr. Don DeMarco, a Canadian, conservative, orthodox philosophy professor - a rare bird - has penned an all-too-real description of the state of Canada...
Choices, Good and Bad
Today is the feast of Saint Matthias, the one chosen, as recounted in the first chapter of Acts, to replace Judas Iscariot, who betrayed...
Holy Wars Medieval and Modern, Briefly Considered
From the time of Muhammad on, Islam has conquered lands by force of arms. The great warrior Charles Martel stopped the Muslim invasion of...
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In the past week, there has been a lot of rough weather. The worst of it, or at least the worst that has gotten...
