(I)f there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power. As history demonstrates,... Read more.
Sunday, and Pre-Election Thoughts
A blessed and glorious Sunday to all our readers… Today’s Gospel speaks of Christ’s ‘elect’ – that is, His chosen, which in the... Read more.
Enlarge your desires, do not bear the yoke with unbelievers. The deeper our faith, the stronger our hope, the greater our desire, the larger will be our capacity... Read more.
if a man is united inwardly with the Son of the living God, he also bears his likeness outwardly by his continual practice of heroic goodness, and especially through... Read more.
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things which have been accomplished among us, just as they were delivered to us by those who from... Read more.
Darkness and Pronouns
And thick darkness shall cover the land…The widespread blackouts in Manitoba and California – regions which otherwise share almost nothing else in common... Read more.
Ignatius’ Bread and Canada’s Weed
Saint Ignatius of Antioch (+107) joyfully ‘went to the lions’, as the saying goes, meeting his martyrdom in the Coliseum, perhaps less than a decade... Read more.
I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way. I plead with you: show me no untimely kindness.... Read more.
All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together, happily united (Saint Marguerite D’Youville, +1771)... Read more.
Four Saints in One
We celebrate a veritable panoply of saints today: In Canada, we have the memorial of Saint Marguerite D’Youville (+1771), a lovely French Canadian mademoiselle,... Read more.