Feminist Follies – Part II
(tFollowing upon her first instalment in this three part-series, here Paula Adamick charts the advance of the feminist movement through the mid-20th century by...
Praying for and with All the Holy Souls
A blessed All Souls’ Day to all our readers. Here is an article from our archives, which sums up the Church's tradition of praying...
Losing Canada
When the cross atop Mount
Royal was first erected in 1924, the Montreal
Gazette described it as “a memorial to the survival of the Canadian people,
whose...
Georgian Bay Pilgrimage
I've been gone for a couple of days, on pilgrimage to Martyrs' Shrine, in Midland, Ontario, of which I have written a number of...
Why to Say No to Trudeau
When the blackface scandal first broke, CTV political commentator Don Martin said that Justin Trudeau told him as a backbench MP that he would...
The Need for Spiritual Care in Dementia
 “Dementia is a group of symptoms that affects mental cognitive tasks such as memory and reasoning. Dementia is an umbrella term that Alzheimer’s Disease...
Healing the Blind, That We All May See
Although we have been dispensed from attendance at Holy Mass because of the pandemic, it would be good to read the lessons of the...
Word Painting in William Byrd’s Vigilate and Ave Verum Corpus
Few composers have lived and nonetheless thrived in such a turbulent era as William Byrd. Born sometime between 1539 and 1543, Byrd grew up...
Stomping on the Devil’s Toe
The Catechism of the Catholic Church declares that the devil is not only real, but most certainly is not just some blind impersonal force...
Finding Interest in the Ritual of Mass
More times than I can count I have been told by young men and women that they do not attend Mass because they find...
