12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave is a powerful film based on the memoir by Solomon Northup published in 1853. The film has won 134 awards since...
Charis-maniacs
I grew up on the rather traddy side of the Catholic fence—I recited rote prayers and the Baltimore Catechism, with a High Latin Mass thrown in...
Delivering bricks
I used to work at a brickyard while I was going through school and when I was first married. It was an amazing place,...
The Twilight of American Enlightenment
The average age of North Americans is forty-one; this means that most people have no personal recollection of the decade of the 1950s, the...
A Gift of Myself
A Gift of Myself, the second book in the Little Douglings series by Carissa Douglas is even more delightful than her first story, I...
Faith of our Fathers
Our parish celebrated its hundredth anniversary last Sunday. It was a big to-do. The bishop came for Mass, there were ten priests, thirty altar servers, incense, bows,...
The grammar of worship
Photo: Sketch of St. Dunstan's Basilica, Charlottetown, PEI by Heinz Klassen.
Ever read an email that made you wince? I don’t mean because of off-colour...
Mary, Mother of God
In the first reading we find the ancient prayer of blessing which God gave to Moses to hand on to Aaron and his sons:...
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, London, 1926
Split Infinitives. The English-speaking world may be divided...
The Children’s Catechism
The Catholic Church and Philosophy by Fr. Vincent McNabb, OP
London, Burns, Oates, and Washbourne, Ltd. Publishers to the Holy See, 1927
But indeed it is...