Hope amidst chaos
WRITING in The Catholic Thing on Sunday, Canadian columnist David Warren discussed the fallout of America’s election. In his view the election signalled that “we are now complete foreigners in this...
View ArticleA meditation for the Feast of Christ the King
From the Office of Readings for today, a discourse by Origen: The coming of the kingdom of God, says our Lord and Saviour, does not admit of observation, and there will be no-one to say “Look here!...
View ArticleHomeschooling: freedom’s last stand
“This new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing.” Thus Hitler famously declared in 1937 as he ordered the nation’s...
View ArticleHollywood: Where Christian conversion is a ‘meltdown’
Only in Hollywood is conversion to Christianity compared to a drug-induced “meltdown.” Everybody’s now familiar with the news that the “half man” on CBS’s Two and a Half Men joined a Christian church...
View ArticleSt. Andrew’s Day: Would you drop your nets?
Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Andrew, the apostle who was martyred in Greece on an X-shaped cross. Coming as it does right before Advent, St. Andrew’s Day by tradition marks the end of the Church...
View ArticleA cop finds the Cross on the streets of New York
Larry DePrimo couldn’t have predicted the attention he’d get over what might seem a rather simple act of kindness. On Nov. 14th, the 25-year-old NYPD cop found a panhandler going barefooted on a frigid...
View ArticlePro-life media saves lives!
I’ve been blessed for several years now to work full-time for an amazing pro-life apostolate that focuses on cutting through the misinformation and lies on abortion and other cultural issues from the...
View ArticleWhy our family waits to plug in the Christmas lights
As we’re in the throes of the pre-Christmas season, my little house in rural Nova Scotia is surrounded by brightly-lit homes, many of which are really quite impressive. We were surprised when we moved...
View ArticleA beautiful Christmas poem in honor of slain Newtown children
A FRIEND of mine posted this beautiful poem on Facebook. I thought I’d share it. It’s being credited to someone named Cameo Smith from Mt. Wolf, Pennsylvania. Twas’ 11 days before Christmas, around...
View ArticleTom Hooper’s Les Miserables: a tarnished gem
Here’s my latest op-ed at LifeSiteNews.com, reprinted with permission: *** Don’t they know they’re making love to one already dead? As Anne Hathaway cries out the classic “I Dreamed a Dream” in Tom...
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