Easter, Popularity and Populism
I hope that all our readers are enjoying their ‘week of Sundays’ during this Easter Octave, every day a solemnity, to be celebrated with great joy. We... Read more.
A very joyous and blessed Easter to all of your readers. For the next fifty days, we rejoice in the Lord’s resurrection from the dead, giving victory over... Read more.
A note to wish all our readers a very blessed and joyous Triduum, the holy ‘Three Days’, which really are, liturgically, one continuous Day, beginning... Read more.
As many expected, myself included, the Canadian Parliament voted Bill 84 into law the other day, without the hoped-and-fought for conscience protections. As I... Read more.
ISIS and Passion Sunday
ISIS attacked again yesterday, their favorite target, apparently, Christians, this time worshiping Coptics participating in Palm Sunday Mass. Forty seven were... Read more.
Bill 84 and the Inviolability of Conscience
Sometime this Holy Week, the federal parliament will vote on Bill 84, an amendment to the ‘Medical Assistance in Dying’ Act which legislated physician-assisted... Read more.
Trump’s Tomahawks
There is not much profit, in more ways than one, in commenting on international affairs, but that does not stop so many, myself included, from trying. (To comment,... Read more.
Another truck attack, this time in Sweden, where a ‘lone wolf’, as they are so euphemistically termed, plowed into an ‘upscale’ department... Read more.
Salvific Suffering
In, 1984, Pope Saint John Paul II penned an Apostolic Letter on the mystery of human suffering, Salvifici Doloris (curiously, now looking back, the same year he... Read more.
Laetare, O Maria
A blessed solemnity of the Annunciation, when the divine Word was made incarnate in the womb of the Virgin Mary. When Dionysius Exiguus, who formulated what we... Read more.