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?” 

“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 Lansbury’s 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.” 

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 chief’s story did not include the years between the passing of the buffalo until his death in 1932. 

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

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

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

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

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. 

The age has lost its youth, and the times begin to grow old.

2 Esdras 14: 10

Recently my executive assistant pointed out that the photo I was using for my column was … out of date. Her diplomatic wording sounded more like: “You are waaaay older than you were when the photo was taken. You should change it. Truth in advertising.” It did force me to confront the reality of aging.

In a small town in Ontario, the Holy Spirit is working in a big way through two Catholic men with phones, a couple of cameras, and some microphones.