Eucharist: To Believe, or not to Believe?

Nineteenth Sunday Per Annum (C) August 11, 2019. ‘Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the...

Impurity to Insanity

Whither Purity? “Canada is a sick country.” Tucker Carlson on the Yaniv case, July 2019 In a pair of columns in the National Post last month,...

Misunderstanding Catholicism—A 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,...

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...

Walking the Opeongo Line with Saint Ann

A brief note from the now-shuttered, yet still beautifully maintained, parish of Saint Joseph's, on the Opeongo Line, as we, about 90 or so...

The Trudeau Reckoning

When Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould publicly accused Justin Trudeau and his senior aides before a Commons Justice and Human Rights Committee in February of...

The sword of Damocles hangs over Europe

On July 13 1917 the three Portuguese children, Lucy, Francisco and Jacinta, heard from Virgin Mary “if people do not cease offending God, a...

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...

The Good Samaritan and Thirsting for God

Take care of him and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend. (Lk. 10:35). The parable of the Good Samaritan...

The Eucharist and Gratitude

And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the...