Closing GM Oshawa: A blessing in disguise?
Is it the canary in the coal-mine, or the bull in an economic china shop? The closure of the Oshawa GM manufacturing plant â...
Women and the State
Yet another female premier has been ousted from office after a single term. Is it too impolite, not to say politically incorrect, to ask...
Misunderstanding CatholicismâA Primer for Catholics and Other Christians
 I pray not only for them, but also for those who believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one,...
Sympathetic Nature
MANY PASSAGES in Scripture, both the Old and the New Testaments, are disconcertingly violent, as in todayâs Gospel:
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom...
The Lenten Fast for Today’s Catholic
Can there be a shorter account of Our Lordâs forty days in the desert than the one from Saint Mark? It omits not only...
Surrendering to Grace When Bereft of the Sacraments
In times of spiritual aridity we can be tempted to think that without certain works, like the Sacraments, our good Lord cannot save us....
Fifteenth Sunday: Applying the Parables
Then the disciples came and asked Jesus, âWhy do you speak to them in parables?â He answered, âTo you it has been given to...
The Great Green Grift
âWhosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his...
Facing Death with Peace and Joy
âPraised may You be, my Lord, through our Sister, Bodily Death, from whom no living man can escape.â (Canticle of the Sun composed by...
The Good in Suffering and the Evil of Euthanasia
According to a recent poll, eighty-six percent of Catholics in Canada are in support of allowing Canadians with a grievous and irremediable illness to...