Feminine Genius
The call-in show a week or two ago on the CBC, as I enjoyed my very first kefir smoothie (quite enjoyable, in fact, made...
Terrorism in France: The Enemy in their Midst
The massacre in Paris yesterday marks the beginning, we may presume, of other tragedies to come. Well over one hundred dead, hundreds more injured,...
No gold medal for truth and justice
The Olympics are over, so a tale of two athletes. In 2011 America’s most successful gymnast, Peter Vidmar, a man who had won more...
But for the grace of God
Every Christmas my family and I read aloud Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. And every Christmas we thoroughly enjoy it and are impressed with how...
Reason and the Refugee
Following on my last post on the 'refugee crisis': One danger in a situation like this, especially one of its global impact, is to...
Teaching kids Latin
Whenever the census in Canada rolls round, I suspect that I am one of the few people who, in the box where one reports...
It’s Church teaching that matters
A first column for a new year for a Roman Catholic magazine. Let’s ask a few basic questions about what it means to be...
Political ‘Knifing’?
I have been meaning to comment on a ridiculous article in the National Post at the end of August, but one which does pertain,...
Liberal Complaisance
As this interminable election process lumbers on, like a dying African elephant stumbling through the savannah, only to curl up beside some fetid swamp,...
The hub of Christianity
We really have to take back our history. In other words, Catholics have to know about their collective past and be prepared to explain...