The Miracle on Assumption Day
Victory in battle does not depend on who has the largest army; it is the Lord's power that determines the outcome (1 Maccabaeus 3:9)
Presumably...
Ritual and Boredom
More times than I can count I have been told by young men and women that they do not attend Mass because they find...
The Good Wife
A good wife, who can find? She is far more precious than jewels...
Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears...
Thomas Tallis Concert
Tallis Choir of Toronto presents: Forty! Forty! Forty!
Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 7:30 pm
in Ottawa
St. Patrick’s Church, 141 McCaul Street (north of Dundas, near St. Patrick Station)
Toronto,...
Hollywood Combusts
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer....
Random Reflections on Jacques Maritain
Recently I was startled to realize, it being so uneasy a reminder of my own mortality, that the eminent French philosopher Jacques Maritain has...
The Governor General’s Hubris and Anti-Intellectualism
On November 1, Governor General (GG) Julie Payette was a keynote speaker at the Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa. She touched upon a...
Review of “The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our Brains”
If you are an average web-surfer, chances are you will spend about 10 seconds looking at this article. Those of you who stick around...
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...
Argumentative Starting Points
Jesus provides us with a motive for acting, viz., the love of God, which in practical terms produces a love of our neighbours. The...