Preparing for Christmas
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Hall
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
With this last Audience before the Christmas celebrations, we approach with trepidation and wonder...
Desolation, Death and Resurrection
The fifth Sunday in Lent marks the beginning of Passiontide. It is customary in churches to veil all statues and images until the celebration...
The Catholic Conqueror, Charles Martel
(As Europe confronts the problems of mass immigration, especially from Muslim nations, with yet another deadly stabbing by a 'mentally disturbed' Afghan asylum seeker,...
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...
MAiD and Salvific Suffering
In 2016, two weeks after it was legalized in Canada, a patient asked for my help in referring her for Medical Assistance in Dying...
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 Primacy of the Family, and Children
It has always been difficult for the homilist to preach on the feast of the Holy Family. In the old days, the priest would...
Our Lord’s Baptism and Our Lady
And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased’ (Lk. 3:22). ⧾
Today’s Feast of the...
The Raising of Lazarus
How old was Lazarus? Robert Browning, in a poem written in 1855—An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician—suggests that...
Canada at the Gates of…
“It is gravely unjust to enact laws that legalize euthanasia or justify and support suicide, invoking the false right to choose a death improperly...
