Trudeau’s MAiD Service: A Euthanasia Program for Canada
The development of the laws that legalized and continue to expand assisted suicide and euthanasia in Canada reflect the speed at which society increasingly...
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...
Romano Guardini’s ‘The End of the Modern World’
The End of the Modern World, a 1956 book by Italian-German priest and theologian, Romano Guardini, is not an easy or facile read. That...
A Catholic Scientist Champions the Shroud of Turin
The 'Shroud of Turin', widely held as the very burial sheet of Our Lord, imprinted miraculously with the image of His own body, will...
The Ladder of Divine Ascent: A book to read during Lent
One of the great spiritual books that it is surely advisable to be read during the Lenten journey is The Ladder of Divine Ascent, written...
Evelyn Waugh’s Bitter Trial
“It must be observed that if the faith were endangered, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly.” St.Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica II,...
Echoes of Ronald Knox and C.S. Lewis
Some years ago I wrote rather a long winded play, Shaw vs Chesterton, an imaginary debate between two great friends, G.K. Chesterton and Bernard...
Littlest Suffering Souls: Children Whose Short Lives Point Us to Christ
Austin Ruse, Littlest Suffering Souls: Children Whose Short Lives Point Us to Christ. Charlotte: TAN Books, 2017.
With modern medical breakthroughs, treatments and medicines,...
Nebraska: A Review
Nebraska (2013)
Written by Bob Nelson
Directed by Alexander Payne
A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its...
Damsels in Distress (2012): A Film Review
Immediately before the credits roll, a notice appears on the screen to the effect that footnotes will follow. There are some, but they flash...