Sunday, December 7, 2025

The Repentance and Return of Saint Peter

In a previous essay I dealt with the stages in St. Peter's fall from grace. In this essay, I would like to examine his...

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

Since you are children of God, God has sent into your hearts the Spirit of His Son, the Spirit who cries out: Abba, Father....

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...

Canada’s New World Disorder

Your degeneracy is astonishing. Find God,” responded Josh Alexander to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s June 21 tweet from Reykjavik:“Took this yesterday before heading home...

Prodigal Catholics – Why They Leave, and Why They Return

A Pew Research Center poll indicated one out of every ten Americans is an ex-Catholic. Add them up as if they were a church...

Defining Virtue

In his Confessions, the brilliant St. Augustine tells his reader that he knows quite well what time is, until someone asks him to define...

The Purifying Fire of Truth

Twentieth Sunday Per Annum (C) August 18, 2019. Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you,...

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...

Second Sunday of Lent: Our Transfigured and Suffering Lord

He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also...

Pentecost and Witnessing to Truth

To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good (1 Cor. 12:7). Today, with joy and thanksgiving we celebrate the Solemnity...