Maria Goretti and the Destructive Effects of Lust
It was a day much like today, a hot, humid and sweltering July 6th in the year of our Lord 1902, in a small...
Barnabites, Civil Wars and Confusing Synods
Saint Anthony Zaccaria (+1539), from noble lineage in late-renaissance Italy, first studied medicine, then for the priesthood, adopting a life of great discipline and...
The Patronage of Saints
When the Church canonizes some of her faithful as ‘saints’, she is declaring that they lived a Christian life more perfectly, practising charity in...
The God of Abraham, Sodom and Canada
Abraham’s dialogue with God in yesterday’s Sunday reading still speaks to us four millennia onwards. Indeed, the principle is timeless, that God’s justice –...
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...
