Don’t Get Comatose: The German Euthanasia Program and the Barbarism of Bill C-7
George Santayana's aphorism that those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it came to mind quite forcefully this week. And, I...
Lent’s Little Lights
One of the most beautiful uplifting things that helps me stay focused on Lent is the theme of light. In his Angelus address of Sunday 28 February 2021,...
True Christian Tolerance
In Lent we pledge ourselves to acquire virtue. The one, perhaps the only, virtue universally honoured today is tolerance. It is a useful Lenten...
Echoes of Ronald Knox and C.S. Lewis
Some years ago I wrote rather a long winded play, Shaw vs Chesterton, an imaginary debate between two great friends, G.K. Chesterton and Bernard...
The Equality Act and Its Follies
He created them male and female; and blessed them: and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. Genesis 5, v 2.
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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...
The King and Serpent in the Desert: The Fourth Sunday of Lent
Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that whoever believes in...
Starving Souls Need Leisure
The body needs food. All people go hungry some of the time. We often feel at least a tiny bit sorry for someone who...
T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral
The Don Bosco Drama Club of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is pleased to present T.S. Eliot’s play Murder in the Cathedral, with music...
A Brief Philosophy of Music
'Critical Race Theory' is all the rage, so it is not much surprise that the historiographical device currently in vogue is the notion of...