Hell is full of the talented, but Heaven of the energetic. (Saint Jane Francis de Chantal)
Month: August 2021
Father Joseph Koterski, Rest in Peace
From the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars: He will be sorely missed…. R.I.P. – Joseph Koterski, S.J. Faithful Fellowship member and past President, Father Joseph Koterski has died. He had been giving a retreat at Fordham University when he collapsed after having a heart attack. Those who knew him even a little recognized that[…]
Preferential Treatment
On July 27, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Kieran Moore, provided an update on the government’s response to the present COVID19 pandemic. In the presentation, he indicates that there will be different regulations for fully vaccinated staff and students when classes resume this fall. Earlier this month, Premier Doug Ford promised Ontarians that[…]
And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.[…]
A Primer on Human Embryology
Introduction Pro-life issues are among the most important facing Catholics and other believers throughout the world. Abortion must certainly rank as the top issue in the pro-life agenda. Even among non-Christians, polls reveal that between 15% and 75% of persons believe abortion should in illegal in all or most cases.[1] In 2019 alone, about 889,000[…]
The Great Dominican Dream
August 8th is the feast of St Dominic Guzman, founder of the Dominican Order. This year St Dominic’s feast is special because we are celebrating the eighth centenary of his entrance in heaven. As a Franciscan I cannot not rejoice in this beautiful feast day! In an interesting reflection regarding the life of St Dominic[…]
Dominic and the Dogs of (Spiritual) War
(As Father Attard reminds us, this is the 8th centenary of the death of the great Saint Dominic, entering heaven on August 6th, 1221, four years before the birth of one of his greatest disciples, Thomas Aquinas. Although this year his feast falls on a Sunday, we though it a propos to publish a couple[…]
The Holy Mass Part V: The Sacrificial Bread of Life
This Sunday’s reflection is the fifth in a series of meditations on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, with specific references to the Ancient Rite of the Mass, the Usus Antiquior. There are many books in circulation that illustrate the theological and spiritual cohesion of the Ancient Rite of the Mass. It is the Rite[…]
A Catholic Physician’s Perspective on the Current State of Medicine
I’ve been a physician for a very long time, and I still love what I do. I would not have had it any other way – except maybe being an astronaut. But I wear glasses, so that wouldn’t work … Most of the time it was really fun. Some times were pretty tough. I didn’t[…]
I beg you to make these things known to the rest of our colleagues, so that through their encouragement the whole brotherhood may be strengthened and made ready for the spiritual conflict – so that each one of us may think less of death and more of immortality – so that everyone, dedicated to the[…]