The Iranian Revolution … 40 years later
“What did I do to them?” Shah Reza Pahlavi, 1979
Throughout the world, February 11 of this year may have seemed like any other day.
It...
The Significance of the March for Life
The upcoming feast of Saint Matthias, May 14th, paradoxically marks the sombre anniversary of the legalization of abortion in Canada, under Trudeau Sr., in...
Pope Benedict and Saint Teresa of Jesus
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Saint Teresa of Avila
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In the course of the Catecheses that I have chosen...
Systemic Blindness
How can you fight something you cannot see properly?—An Officer in Training with Canadian Armed Forces
As Canada languishes in this protracted period of medical...
G.K. Chesterton as Catholic Apologist
G.K. Chesterton is known as the most often quoted of any writer . . . and the least often read. It’s easy to see...
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,...
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...
The True Beauty of Woman
I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. (Genesis 3:16)
Ironically, although technological advances have made it possible for...
Fatima, Ukraine and Consecration
(The consecration of Russia, and whether or not it has been done, or done correctly, is a convoluted and controversial topic, upon which readers...
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...