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Jesus taught by repeating tautologies repeatedly

do not heap up empty phrases.

Matthew 6: 7

I recently emailed someone and assured them that I would provide a brief summary of the meeting we had attended. As soon as I hit send, I thought, isn’t a summary … brief? Indeed, aren’t summaries often called briefs? My daughter regularly claims something is an over-exaggeration. We don’t usually disagree on her main point, but always quarrel about the use of “over.” Isn’t an exaggeration already excessive? How can you over-exaggerate an exaggeration? Tautologies abound. 

Jesus’ burial cloth no longer shrouded in mystery

The Shroud of Turin—venerated as the burial cloth of Jesus for centuries—has been vindicated.  Back in 1988 was big news that the Shroud had been carbon dated and the result was supposedly that the Shroud dated back to only the 1200s and was deemed a medieval fake. The findings were even printed in L’Osservatore Romano, the VaticanƵapp newspaper. To many, it seemed conclusive (though no good explanation was offered as to how the image got on the cloth). But for many us, the so-called “science” felt off, and we continued to believe in the veracity of the Shroud. 

We’d best remember all sin and fall short

You know something? Nobody is perfect. Now this might come as a great surprise to some of you just as it did to me. 

Put aside politics for incarnational truth

Some of you may remember a folk rock band from BC that was moderately popular in the 1990s named Spirit of the West. One of their hits was titled “Political”. Detailing the sentiments of one looking back on a failed relationship, the chorus queried “Why did everything, every little thing, every little thing between you and me have to be so political?” 

Sending toddlers to school more minus than plus

“We know that we've stolen a year of childhood right around the Western world, the year of five, when our little ones are still supposed to be largely running around outside building sandcastles, and pretending they're unicorns or dragons.” Australian author Maggie Dent spoke these words on Janet LansburyƵapp parenting podcast Unruffled. “We stole that year and when we did that, the pressure for you to get your kid ready for school has intensified and yet the capacity for our children to accelerate their development on any level hasn't changed at all.” 

Our hope is ChristƵapp presence, not reviving the past

In an interview which the historian Frank Linderman recounted, Plenty Coups, traditional chief of the Crow Nation, refused to speak of his life after the destruction of the buffalo. The chiefƵapp story did not include the years between the passing of the buffalo until his death in 1932. 

MAiD exception to the rules

Hope already seemed on life support in what have become the killing fields of CanadaƵapp public health-care system.

Remarks by Pope Francis at IndonesiaƵapp Istiqlal Mosque

Remarks by Pope Francis at IndonesiaƵapp Istiqlal Mosque during the Holy FatherƵapp visit to that country as well as New Guinea, Timor-Leste and Singapore Sept. 2-13, 2024.

  • September 12, 2024

Marriage priorities

Glen ArganƵapp Aug. 20 Catholic Register column made excellent  use of Pope St John Paul IIƵapp teaching about “the marriage of Mary and Joseph as more than a covenant, ‘an authentic communion according to the model of the Blessed Trinity.’” 

Stand for good over evil

Murderous Hamas terrorists have yet again supplied concrete proof of Catholic teaching that good can never come from evil.

An open letter to from Richard Dur to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith about Jordan Peterson

An open letter from Richard Dur, executive director of Prolife Alberta, to Alberta Premier Danielle Smithabout Jordan Peterson, free speech and abortion clinic bubble zones. 

  • September 6, 2024