Saint Peter’s Cathedra
It might seem odd to celebrate a 'chair', even one of Saint Peter, but today's feast commemorates not a physical object, but the office of the...
Sample’s Quiet Revolution
Liturgical music. The phrase may instil a faint feeling of nausea in those even remotely attuned to true beauty, as the strains of treacly...
The True Ecumenism of Saint Francis de Sales
In this week of prayer for Christian unity, I have an article on the Toronto archdiocesan webpage – or more like a few brief...
Snakes in Paradise
Did a snake really wash - or swim - ashore in Ireland – a land that, according to pious tradition, has been without the slithering...
Clarity and Trudeau’s Imprudent Diplomacy
As we move into this new year, we should make certain resolutions, and here’s one proposal: for all of us to strive for greater...
Will Real Evil Please Stand Up?
I am still wondering about the case of Father John McCloskey, the popular – or once popular - Opus Dei priest, responsible for numerous...
Dance me to the end of love
Is love dead, actually? A recent article bemoans the fact that we – well, Americans in particular – are falling out of love with...
Promethean Pelagius
Before we leave 2018 behind, we should mark the 1600th anniversary of the official condemnation, of the heresy of Pelagius, in 418 A.D. by Pope...
Katowice’s Hot Air
At the World Climate Conference in Katowice, Poland, which wrapped up on December 15th, 196 countries – well, representatives from said countries, including our...
CRISPR Children, Edited
You may have heard of CRISPR babies, which may phonically sound rather macabre, but the acronym stands for the rather prosaic Clustered Regularly Interspaced...
