Re-Framing Pius XII
Disinformation, noun: false information spread deliberately and often covertly (by planting rumours) to deceive in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth. The English...
Pope John Paul II’s Last Sermon on the Immaculate Conception
HOLY MASS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 150th ANNIVERSARY
OF THE DOGMA OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
HOMILY OF JOHN PAUL II
Solemnity of...
True Love and Willing the Good: Is Love Kind and Patient?
An examination of the synonyms of love found in Roget’s Thesaurus provide an entry into today’s second reading, Saint Paul’s mini-treatise on love;
appetite, favour,...
Christmas—The Fullness of Love
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full....
Does the Timing of Abortion Matter?
The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops recently released a public statement relating to the current status of abortion in the state. The article reported...
Seventeenth Sunday: Choosing the Highest Good
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; on finding one pearl of great value, he went and...
MAiD and Salvific Suffering
In 2016, two weeks after it was legalized in Canada, a patient asked for my help in referring her for Medical Assistance in Dying...
Virgina Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’: Isolation and Intimacy
Human relationships are sorely limited. We all long for companionship and lasting union with another. However, regardless of place or time, one's ability to...
The Lawyer Who Put the Logic of Darwinism on Trial: Phillip E. Johnson’s Gift...
On the first of November, at the age of 79, Phillip E. Johnson died at his home in California. Johnson was a gifted author...
Masterpieces of Easter Music
The original Gregorian chant of the traditional Easter sequence, Victimae paschali laudes, which goes back to the 11th century, perhaps to Wipo of Burgundy,...