Where have all the new religions gone?
It's been a while since anyone started a new religion. It's not as easy as you think. You have to get a believable number...
Where man meets mercy
Carl Jung (1875-1961), one of the fathers of modern psychology, once apparently quipped that in all his years of therapy he only ever met...
3rd Sunday in Lent: The Sacred Temple
Zeal for your house will consume me (Jn 2:17).
The Gospel records something uncharacteristic: the anger of Christ our Lord. It is a righteous anger, born...
Help take back Canada’s story
Magna Carta is the foundation of our rights to this day. Its guarantees of due process, security of the person, property rights, popular control...
2nd Sunday in Lent: The glory of the crucified Christ
On the second Sunday in Lent we always read the Gospel of the Transfiguration of our Lord. We do so in order that our...
1st Sunday in Lent: Willing obedience
After Jesus was baptized, the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan (Mk 1:12).
On Ash...
6th Sunday: Be made clean!
Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, “I do choose. Be made clean! (Mk 1:41)
This Sunday’s...
Standing on holy ground
Of all the neglected places in church, after the confessional, I’m sure it is the floor. Perhaps that’s for good reason. After Mass, and...
5th Sunday: Poverty, humility, service.
I do it all for the sake of the Gospel, so that I may share in its blessings (1 Cor 9:23).
Last Sunday, in a...
4th Sunday: Listen to the voice of the Lord
They were astounded at his teaching for he taught as one having authority, and not as the scribes (Mk 1:21).
As we commemorate the mysteries of...
