29 Sep Reflections on True Worship
True worship of Christ consists in imitating Him. Peter, however, thinks otherwise. He wants to protect Christ, defending Him from the suffering and death which lie ahead; and this defensive,...
15 Sep The strait, and narrow
The school year has recommenced, and I find myself once again modestly deranging the minds of innocent young seminarians, on the topic of Literature. Catholic Literature. (All great literature is...
06 Sep Include me in
“Whenever I hear the word ‘culture’ I reach for my Browning.” This, attributed to Goering but rather indited by some other nutjob mediocrity, is among my favourite phrases. Often I cite...
04 Sep Reflections on the Publican and Pharisee
The Publican and the Pharisee are proverbial in Christian consciousness. And so we imagine that we know immediately and instinctively the contrast that is being shown us: hypocrisy, on the...
01 Sep Kurelek: The Journey to Faith
[Note: This essay is basically an extraction of interesting elements from the first portion of Kurelek, A Biography (1986) by Patricia Morley]. [caption id="attachment_17307" align="alignleft" width="215"] Hailstorm in Alberta[/caption] Bill Kurelek was...