An Irish Monk in Scotland
We celebrate in our particular diocese today the feast of Saint Columbkille (521-597), an Irish monk from Donegal on the wild west coast of...
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...
Words can hurt, but abortions do kill
If you know anything about Ann Coulter you will know that she adores controversy and likes nothing more than to annoy her critics—and that’s...
A gentle, thoughtful man
Meet Father Zakaria Boutros—a gentle, thoughtful man, one of the leading figures of the Egyptian Coptic Christian community and now obliged to live in...
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...
Why we need the Church
I read the story beneath the title with trepidation but, truth be told, with more than a little resignation. A Montreal deacon had been...
No compromise on love or truth
Newman Centre’s St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Toronto has had its share of controversy. When I first attended Mass there in the late 1980s...
Nine challenges for the next papacy
As I write this column, Pope Benedict is about to conclude his pontificate, the conclave is about to begin, and critics of the Church...
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...
The future of the Church
I speak a great deal at Catholic and pro-life venues in Canada, the United States, and Britain. It’s perhaps the aspect of my professional...