Post Pirates
If I may be permitted a personal post-play reflection, a few words on Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Collegeās production and adaptation of Gilbert...
Cardinal Pell’s Due Process
One might well describe the conviction of Cardinal Pell a travesty of justice, but we will likely never know, as the trial was āblacked...
Minors and Majors
The Vatican synod currently underway has as its theme the āprotection of minorsā, a category that in our current intellectual milieu triggers a vivid...
Saint Peter’s Cathedra
It might seem odd to celebrate a 'chair',Ā even one of Saint Peter, but today's feastĀ 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 ā or more like a few brief...
Snakes in Paradise
Did a snake really wash - orĀ swim - ashore in Ireland ā 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 hereās 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 ā 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 ā well, Americans in particular ā are falling out of love with...
