The State as Corrupting
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” ― Leo Tolstoy
If you peruse the Showbiz section of any...
Did the Pope Change Church Teaching on the Death Penalty?
At the climax of Luke’s passion narrative, we see Jesus hanging between two criminals. One of the criminals mocks Jesus, but the other responds,...
A Reflection on the suspension of Sunday Masses on the Third Sunday in Lent,...
O that today you would listen to his voice! Harden not your hearts (Ps. 95).
The Responsorial Psalm of the Mass on this third Sunday...
Be Ye Perfect: The Seventh Sunday and Lent
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect (Mt. 5:38). ⧾
At face value, these words appear to demand the impossible of us; but...
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...
Pope John Paul II’s First Visitation
(Here is Pope Saint John Paul II's first homily for the feast of the Visitation, to close off his first Marian month as Pope,...
Gay Pride, the Archbishop and the Pastor
Although I try not to dwell on it overmuch, in fact I ignore it as much as I might, this is ‘Gay Pride’ month,...
The Hundred Year War on the Family
Mere days after Our Lady’s final apparition at Fatima on October 13, 1917, the Bolsheviks took power over Russia and quickly established a totalitarian...
Celebrating a Diversity of Vice
Another summer weekend, another 'gay pride' parade, this one with our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, replete with his whole family, along with the representatives...
The Indissolubility of a Mother’s Love
In one of those many paradoxical ironies of history, it was on this day that Woodrow Wilson – for whom I have not much...