Wednesday, February 18, 2026

From Conspiracy to Confirmation

At the beginning of the 'vaccine' mandates, many were criticized as conspiracy theorists - tin-foil-hatted crackpots - for simply questioning the safety and efficacy...

Saint Paul’s Marvelous Metanoia

Metanoia is the original Greek term for 'conversion', which opens the Gospel of Saint Mark with Christ's exhortation: 'Repent and believe in the Gospel!'....

Iraq’s Child Brides

Iraq (*) just passed a 'law' permitting nine-year old girls to marry, following other jurisdictions, and the advice of imams and Islamic interpreters too...

Saint Francis de Sales, Ecumenism and Christian Unity

In this week of prayer for Christian unity, I have an article on the Toronto archdiocesan webpage – or more like a few brief...

A New Era

A blessed Inauguration Day, especially to all our American readers. Say what you will about Donald Trump - he does have his limitations, and...

L.A.’s Inferno and Metanoia

As we pray for those affected by the Los Angeles fires - still burning and uncontained as I write - the significance of this...

Justin Trudeau and the Long, Long….Long Goodbye

Napoleon once quipped that if you want to discover a man's character, don't make him suffer; rather, give him power. By their fruits ye...

The Cappadocians and the Last Days

Today's fourth-century saints, Saints Basil of Caesarea (+379) and Gregory of Nazianzen (+389), comprise, together with Basil's brother Gregory of Nyssa (+395), the trio...

Of Mascots, Saints and Pilgrims

Why do we need a Jubilee mascot? When I think of a mascot, what comes to mind is someone dressed up in an animal...

Christmas and the Mysterium Iniquitatis

There will be some empty chairs around the Christmas table this year, after a Saudi psychiatrist, Tabel Al-Abdulmohesn, plowed his BMW into a Christmas...