It was a day of protest in many elementary schools in Ontario, as quite literally thousands of parents kept their children home as a ‘response’ to Kathleen Wynne’s proposed sex-ed curriculum. The parents were particularly concerned about the introduction of ‘gender identity’ in grade 1, and the normalization of homosexual, ahem, ‘behaviour’. A small gesture, […]
Irony is one of those literary devices, used for humour or for dramatic effect, when something truly unexpected occurs, or something contrary to what actually should happen, in a way that brings forth a wry smile, or perhaps, in the current case, a sigh… In the recent federal budget (the Ontario version is expected […]
In one of those curious mysteries of providence, two tragic events in the past two weeks killed about the same number of people. Both were mass murders, the first at least strongly suspected of being so: The deliberate downing of the Germanwings Flight 9525 , wherein a depressed and suicidal co-pilot locked himself in, and […]
Today, Thursday, March 25th, the solemnity of the Annunciation, marks the twentieth anniversary of Saint John Paul II’s promulgation of Evangelium Vitae, his powerful and foundational encyclical on the dignity of human life. As with his other writings, the Pontiff chose the day wisely, on which we celebrate the conception of Christ in the womb […]
Each year, we here at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom take a late-winter pilgrimage on March 16th to Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland. (This year, we went on Saturday, the 14th, due to scheduling, but back on track for next year!) Of course, the shrine itself is closed, and usually blanketed in deep, wet snow. […]
I think we can all agree that house prices in Canada are out of control, at least in any places where one might still find a job: Consider these numbers in urban areas around the country: To use the two most egregious examples, in Toronto the average price of a detached, single home is now […]
Corruptio optimi pessima, the corruption of the best is the worst, a Latin aphorism that has been adopted into Catholic theology, is a pithy, three word description of the effect of the metaphysical basis of evil: Evil, as a privation of good, must always exist in good. As something ‘good that is missing but that […]
The headline in the National Post this morning read that Greece has surrendered to the Germans. No, it was not from April, 1941, but February, 2015. Germany, victorious in 1941, was the poor man of Europe by 1945, is now again the European economic powerhouse, and carries most of the responsibility of bailing out the […]
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has recently drafted a policy on the “Professional Obligations and Human Rights”, which will change the way physicians approach treatments for their patients, especially in light of moral or religious objections. The College has requested input on this document from the general public, so I advise all […]
A week has passed since the Supreme Court’s unanimous 9-0 decision to strike down the laws prohibiting what is euphemistically called ‘physician assisted suicide’. In a nutshell, the Court has decided the current law prohibiting physicians to commit what really amounts to murder is ‘unconstitutional’. That is, the current proscriptive law violates the 1982 Charter’s […]