Beginning Lent
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...
The Rule of Law: Keeping It All From Falling Apart
The rule of law - in which each power is balanced by other powers and by other spheres of responsibility which keep it within...
Andrew-Dung Lac and the Vietnamese Martyrs: Washed in the Blood of the Lamb
On this memorial of the Martyrs of Vietnam, we commemorate today a whole panoply of white-robed witnesses, Christians, bishops, priests, Franciscans, Dominicans, lay men,...
Doubt on Doubling Down
Are we still permitted to question and debate the mask and lockdowns, or is the new inquisition muzzling us in more than a figurative...
Leaning on the Chair of Peter
The Chair of Saint Peter, is a comforting one, a symbol of the 'pillar and bulwark' of the truth, which is the Church, signifying...
Fare Thee Well, Cardinal Sarah!
Say in ain't so! But it is - Robert Cardinal Sarah's resignation as Head of the Congregation for Divine Worship has been accepted by...
Saint Henry Morse, Priest of the Plague
I stumbled on this absorbing short film on the life of the English martyr, Saint Henry Morse (+1645), who spent significant part of his...
Thanatophilia, Thanatophobia, Keep Your Chins Up, and Keep That Hope in Ya’
(The title of this brief reflection was an attempt at a musical rhyme - and if the theme were not so tragic, I might...
Slides for Magisterial
17- Sexual Revolution18-Canada and US Culture of Life and Death
18-Humanae Vitae
18-Canada and US Culture of Life and Death
Let My People Go…
In this Lenten season, readers may feel like the Israelites, under their heavy taskmasters in Egypt, forced to make bricks without straw. People must...