Two Marital Extremes
Pondering the post-Valentine blues, here is a view of two opposite sides of culture that would have very difficult time cohabiting, so to speak. ...
Bourne Redundancy: The Mediocrity of Movies
Matt Damon has played his eponymous hero, Jason Bourne, since 2002's 'Bourne Identity', finishing the third of the films, the 'Bourne Ultimatum', in 2007....
Gregory’s Mission
One of the great joys of history is reminiscing about the past, giving hope for the present; for history is ‘eschatological’, moving towards a...
The Great Leo
Pope Saint Leo the Great, who reigned from 440 until his death on this day in 461, was known for many things. With his...
Rediscovering Sacred Limits
Is the attack
on Edmonton priest Father Marcin
Maroniuk, following hot on the heels of the knifing of the rector of
the Montreal Oratory, another anomaly, or...
Taigi, Technology and Temperance
We should be cautious of private revelations, and hence, in all the remarkable charisms given to Blessed Anna Maria Taigi (+ June 9th, 1837),...
Dominic and the Goodness of God’s Creation
Saint Dominic died in 1221, four years before his most famous spiritual son, Thomas of Aquinas was born, was, like the famed ‘Dumb Ox’,...
Teresa’s True Concept of What a Friend We Have in Jesus
On this, the 'ides' of October, the fifteenth, mid-month, we celebrate the great mystic and doctor of the Church, Teresa of Avila (+1582) who,...
Lessons from Auschwitz
(In light of the feasts of Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe, here is a re-post of a reflection I wrote upon my own visit...
The True Message of Earth Day
This is the fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day, first officially celebrated on this day in 1970, with its roots in the nascent...
