Captain America as Cultural Chameleon
Alas for Captain America. I know he is a fictional character, but, even so, he has had a rough time of it of late.
First,...
Blessed James Duckett: The Joy of Forgiveness
Before this day ends, a brief word about the remarkable, and largely unknown, Blessed James Duckett, about whom I knew nothing until a write...
But Your Grace: Christ Is a Sacrificial Priest
A very merry Sixth Day of Christmas, when my true love game to me six geese a-layin'. And may your metaphorical geese lay many...
Of Flags and Railroads
Symbols mean something, and today is the 60th anniversary of our adoption, back in 1965 under Lester B. Pearson, of a the âmaple leafâ...
Am I not your Mother?
On a rather chilly morning on a hillside outside what is now Mexico City, in the year of our Lord 1531, while the Protestant âReformationâ was...
I am the Immaculate Conception
Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou - I am the Immaculate Conception
These are the words Our Lady said to Saint Bernadette Sobirous, which she spoke...
Ignatius Ground to Wheat, While Canada Grows its Pot
(This being not only the memorial of the one of the Church's earliest post-Apostolic martyrs, the great Ignatius, who may have known the Apostle...
The Other Saint Ignatius – of Laconi
Saint Ignatius of Laconi (1701- 1781) - not to be confused with the more famous Ignatius of Loyala - was a Franciscan friar, whom...
The DSM, Psychiatry, and Big Pharma
The DSM - the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - is the textbook, one might even call it the bible, of psychiatry and psychology. After...
Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle: A Teacher for Teachers
Jean-Baptiste de la Salle (1651 - 1719), a French nobleman, ordained a priest, founded the first order in the Churchâs history entirely without priests,...
