Imagining Corona
Napoleon once quipped that men live by imagination â by which, we may surmise, he meant that they live more in the future than...
Canada, Good While It Lasted
What more need be said, for the visuals speak a thousand words? Vanguards of police standing mutely and idly by, while âprotestersâ â armed...
Spiritual and Secular Asceticism
A blessed and grace-filled Lenten season to all our readers, beginning with this solemn commemoration of Ash Wednesday to launch us on our way...
Vanier’s Long Shadow
The plot thickens around affaire de Jean Vanier. I did not know he admitted to the sexual liasons in 2016, that the women had...
Vanier’s Legacy
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum dicendum est â speak nothing but good of the dead, first attributed to Chilon of Sparta in Greek, we...
The Wreck of OECTA
The public teachers of Ontario â including the Catholic Board, still holding that title, with not much to show for it, but more on...
Councils, Chiefs and Trudeau’s Chaos
The pathetic summation of Marc Miller, Minister of Indigenous Services, says it all: The protests, clogging up the entire Canadian economy, or whatâs left...
Whither and Whence, Amazonia?
A few words on the post-synodal letter on the Amazon, Querida Amazonia. 'There is much upon which to ponder in the document, and I would...
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...
More on Magisteria and Mohawks
We Catholics are now perforce to ponder more deeply the limits of Magisterial authority â specifically papal pronouncements â in light of the current...
