Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Yesterday, Dr. Sephora Tang, a young psychiatrist plying her trade in Ottawa, whom I happen to know, was on the CBC’s Ontario Today defending conscience rights of physicians, especially in the face of the euphemistic ‘medical assistance in dying’ laws forcing them to participate in euthanasia. Doctors are fighting an uphill battle, as they are[…]
A reminder that Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is offering the annual Wojtyla Institute on the weekend of August 10-13th. This year’s theme is: Beauty & Catholicism: A discussion of Art, Literature, Nature, and concepts of Beauty in the Catholic Tradition. There is a raft of fine speakers on this fundamental topic, for beauty is perhaps[…]
I write driving (as a passenger, not to worry) through the majestic scenery of the Canadian Rockies, the views surreally obscured by the smoke of nearby raging forest fires, a natural occurrence which normally provides much benefit: Removing old growth, preparing for new, sort of like an arboreal Lent. Of course, the effect on those[…]
We here in the grand Dominion of Canada have passed some very bad laws of late, sadly during what should be an otherwise celebratory 150th anniversary year. There was the June 2016 legalization of euthanasia, making what once would have been fevered analogies to the early Nazi era now a bit too apt. Once you get[…]
Many members of the Millennial generation are strongly concerned with social justice. They are die-hard Democrats (or NDPers, in the Canadian context), and leftism is virtually their religion. To say that one supports Donald Trump is equivalent, for them, to saying that one worships the devil. Except that it’s worse, because they don’t believe in[…]
Today marks the 228th anniversary of the official beginning of the French Revolution, back in 1789 with the storming of the Bastille prison. Much ado is made of this ‘storming’, even though there were only seven inmates still there. The Marquis de Sade (from whom we derive the term ‘sadism’) had been imprisoned for his[…]
Saint Camillus de Lellis (1550-1614), former soldier, gambler, sinner, then revert, nurse, dedicated carer for the sick, and saint. Also a contemporary and a penitent of Saint Philip Neri. Today also marks the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison (1789) and the beginning of the French Revolution, which helped form modern France, for[…]
I have an article published this morning in Crisis magazine, on a quartet of totalitarian thought-control laws recently passed here in Canada. Feel free to peruse and comment. One of the purposes of this cross-Canada pilgrimage on which I have ventured is to pray for this country, which adopted me from Scotland, along with so[…]
Today is the feast of Saint Benedict, with the variety of whose ‘options’ carrying his name he may not necessarily agree. At a young age, he retreated from the decadence of sixth century Rome, but, as is often the case, the world, or at least some from the world, followed him. Truth and holiness have[…]
I am currently travelling across this fair land, by car, with two former students, visiting friends and alumni along the way, in this sesquicentennial anniversary. A quixotic adventure, with many miles yet to go, but one already filled with serendipitous and pleasant meetings, music, spirituality, and discussion. Be assured of our prayers as we journey,[…]
