Gregorian Chant: Music for Soul, Body, and God

I recently read a short (152 pages) and small book (each page is 5” by 6”), with beautiful font, and a fittingly short title,...

The Line in the BC Sand

As we wrote recently, British Columbia currently has a total prohibition on public religious services; what is of most concern to Catholics is the...

Saint Patrick and the Emerald Isle: Erin Go Bragh!

A very happy Saint Patrick’s Day, to all our readers, which this year is still toned down by the insidious Covid-19 virus - or,...

Saints Cyril and Methodius, and, Yes, Valentine

Today in the universal calendar - superseded this year by Ash Wednesday - we celebrate the ninth-century monks and missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius,...

Newfoundland Moribundus?

Newfoundland and Labrador, jutting out into the cold North Atlantic, have been battered in past decades - no pun on their fishing industry, which...

Prayerful Protest and Niqabs?

Although I agree with much of what Father Raymond de Souza says in his recent column in the National Post, I must respectfully disagree with...

Patching the Chinese Schism?

Be wary in signing deal with atheistic Communists, Confucius might have said, had he lived another millennia or so, only to see his nation...

A Philosophical Habit of Mind

On a more positive note on how universities may best fulfill what they were originally founded to do, please do feel free to peruse...

Imagining Corona

Napoleon once quipped that men live by imagination – by which, we may surmise, he meant that they live more in the future than...

Remembering Father Joseph Koterski, S.J.

Tributes are pouring in for Father Joseph Koterski, one of the loyal sons of Saint Ignatius, who loved the Society of Jesus to which...