Oprah vs Trump
Oprah Winfrey’s epic speech at the Golden Globe Awards is already old news but her star power is not.
The question remains: will she run...
Dissolution of a Nation
Citing “the public interest in the administration of justice”, the law society claims that the personal views and preferences of an “overwhelming majority” of...
Our Lady’s Presentation, and the Perfect Gift of Self
The Presentation of Mary – commemorating Our Lady’s dedication and consecration to God as a young girl of about three years old in the...
Providence and a Thief’s Goodness
Last year on Palm Sunday we heard the passion from Saint Mark’s Gospel, and next year it will be from Saint Matthew. Each is...
Can Popes be Heretics?
Is the Pope a heretic? should sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but is a charge that has been made by a...
Thirtieth Sunday: The Old Testament in Light of the New
WE CANADIANS pride ourselves on being tolerant, which, paradoxically, means that we are extremely intolerant. To demonstrate our intolerance, let me recite three words...
Sacred Art on the Second Sunday
Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! (Jn. 1:29). ⧾
This declaration made by John the Baptist and...
The Raising of Lazarus
How old was Lazarus? Robert Browning, in a poem written in 1855—An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician—suggests that...
Father Jonathan Robinson, C.O., Requiescat in Pace
Father Jonathan Robinson, C.O. the founding superior of the Toronto Oratory, has just gone to eternity, after a brief illness. Ordained in 1962, just...
The Office of Peter
As everyone knows, the word “catholic” means all inclusive. It can be used with no religious connotation, as in “a catholic taste in reading,”...
