Author’s note to the reader:This is the text of a talk, lightly revised and a little expanded, given in Vancouver on 16 March, 2023, during an event sponsored by the Houston Centre for Humanity and the Common […]
It beggars belief that the bishop of Rome would visit Canada, to cement a series of apologies for Catholic failings in the residential schools affair, without taking a considered position on the charge of genocide. […]
Editor’s note: This essay was originally published on July 13, 2021; it is posted again as background to Pope Francis’s July 24-29, 2022, visit to Canada. ‘Sentiment is a dangerous thing. Truth and reconciliation both […]
In his Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948), T. S. Eliot writes that “all parties live in amity, so long as they accept some common moral conventions.” While that may seem rather general and somewhat overstated, it is […]
Editor’s note: Earlier this week, the Catholic bishops of Quebec accepted the province’s imposition of COVID-19 vaccine passports as a requirement to attend religious services, while stating that they continue to petition the government to […]
Ambrose was governing Milan in AD 374, when the bishop of that city died and a struggle broke out between the Arian and Nicene factions to secure the succession. At stake was the catholicity of […]
Objection 1. It seems there is no such obligation, and can be none, for governments are charged with oversight of things pertaining to the common good in temporal affairs, and matters of public health, especially […]
I see from the graphs provided by the CBC that in the land of my birth the local witchdoctor’s lockdown charm has been working well – so well she’s trotted out Premier Horgan to demand […]
Objection 1. It seems there is a moral obligation, for one is obligated to care for one’s own body and to care likewise for the body of the neighbor, who by divine command is to […]
Whereas I, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Chief Medical Officer of Health have initiated an investigation into the existence of COVID-19 within the Province of Alberta. Whereas the investigation has confirmed that COVID-19 is present in Alberta. […]
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