Daily Quotation: Thomas Aquinas
Just in case you thought Saint Thomas Aquinas was a solitary, ivory-tower academic, here are two thoughts for all of us to ponder, in...
Intolerance and Censorship of Truth: Is History Repeating Itself?
Anti-abortion ads removed from GRT buses – Complaint by women’s sexual health organization prompts region to pull ads” – Johanna Weidner, Waterloo Region Record,...
Tragic Truths Admitted
One can scarcely believe the admission of Democratic State Representative John Rogers, who will go down in infamy for admitting the following concerning babies...
A Daily Quotation
To face what joys and troubles we might, we will provide some quotations for inspiration, and here is one from the mighty pen of...
Immortal Irony
In his short story “The Ambitious Guest,” Nathaniel Hawthorne uses a lot of irony. A lot might actually be an understatement. The story is...
True Mercy and False Sentimentality: An Address
We hear much of mercy, which in its Latin original is derived from miser (sad) and cordia (heart). In his one question in the...
Saint Faustina’s Merciful Jubilee
A blessed Second Sunday of Easter, or Sunday in the Octave of Easter or, now, Divine Mercy Sunday, proclaimed so by Pope (now Saint)...
A Personal Reflection on Truly Accompanying the Dying
(A few years ago, we published the following letter, which was sent to Catholic Insight in response to my brief posting on the letter...
The Upside-Down of Moral Relativism
Very often we hear it said that when tackling thorny questions, two heads are better than one. As for considering the many facets of...
Song of Creation: An Easter Poem
They who hear the song love the singer
Music promising light from darkness
Peace and life ever...
