Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Canada’s Dominion Day

A blessed Dominion Day to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of ‘Canada’ as a (mostly) independent part of the...

The Persistence of China’s Underground Church

On this solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul – and a blessed one to all our readers - it is good to know that...

Cool Heads and Heat Waves

We should all feel some empathy at the drowning of the father and his 23-month daughter in the Rio Grande. I have not for...

Lines in the Sand

I’m glad to read this morning that there are still limits to our societal insanity, with the intended forced abortion of a Nigerian woman...

More and Fisher: Signs for our Times

Today we commemorate Saint Thomas More, husband, father, lawyer, sometime chancellor of England, martyred in 1535 along with his compatriot Saint John Fisher, Bishop...

Taking Pride in True Friendship

As Canadians celebrate 'Gay Pride' across this fair dominion, I thought a bit of clarity on what it really is we are being asked...

God as Three in One

A blessed solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, the greatest and most fundamental mystery of our Faith, signifying Who God is in His very...

The Pope’s Carbon and Luther’s Katherine

Pope Francis the other day expressed his full support for ‘carbon taxes’ – carbon ‘pricing’, if you will – a punitive measure to reduce...

That Slippery Morphing Conscience

Conscience can be a slippery thing, if we allow it so, eventually fluctuating under the waves of circumstances around us, by which we may...

Barnabas, Encouragement and Keeping On the Path

It is fitting that we celebrate the Apostle Barnabas, the ‘son of consolation’, or the ‘son of encouragement’, in this season of the Holy...