Caveat Spectator
Modern television (or do we say internet?) programs, particularly on Netflix, and other media, have become radically explicit, both in violence and in sex. Reading... Read more.
Amoris Laetitia, Global Greed, and Warming Up
*The Holy Father’s Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia is now promulgated. I have only read the first few pages, wherein the Pope advises... Read more.
Ant-Man vs. Daredevil
(As a bit of light-hearted reading before the issuance of the Holy Father’s Apostolic Letter later today, here are some thoughts on two superheroes, such as they... Read more.
Mercy: Divine and Human, True and False
(The following is an address I offered yesterday at Saint Hedwig’s Church for the Divine Mercy celebration. Editor) This being the Year of Mercy, decreed... Read more.
Legislators, P.E.I. and Lust in the Classroom
A blessed Easter Octave Friday, which liturgically is a Sunday. There is an old adage about a ‘month of Sundays’, but the Catholic Church really does... Read more.
Our Unsupportable Medical Utopia
I met an acquaintance of mine recently in one of local stores (of course, government run) that sells liquid cheer, to refresh the weary soul after a long Lent. ... Read more.
The Beauty of Suffering: Salvifici Doloris
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.
Of Bombs, Budget and Bombast
*Our prayers go out for all the victims and, yes, the perpetrators of yesterday’s attacks in Belgium. We are up against a determined enemy, willing to kill,... Read more.
Of Depravity and Bullying
*A blessed solemnity of Saint Joseph to one and all! *To paraphrase the words of the great American Justice, Robert Bork, we slouch each day closer to Gomorrah. ... Read more.
A Deadly First
With the permission of a Superior Court Justice, Ontario had its first euthanasia case this morning, when an 81 year old man suffering from end-stage lymphoma was... Read more.