A few months ago, I read Francis Sullivan’s Salvation Outside the Church? I only meant to read a portion of it for a research essay, but I confess to having devoured it in a few days. I recall being obscenely busy with school and work, but I just couldn’t put that book down. It was…

St Peter’s Basilica isn’t actually that old. The construction of the Basilica that we see today only began in the 16th century and was completed in the 17th. Before that, there was Old St Peter’s Basilica, which was constructed in the 4th century. Going back even further, we would not find a basilica at all…

What is it about the Catholic Church that makes it unique among all the other Christian churches? Is it belief in Jesus? No, they all have that. Is it its apostolicity? No, the Orthodox have that. Is it valid sacraments? No, the Orthodox have that as well. What about unbroken, unchanging teaching? No: the Church…

“Sometimes I think of how, at this moment, there is someone suffering somewhere in the world, who is malnourished, who is poor, who is being killed, who is far more hard up than I am in this moment; and it’s hard to bear it.” Someone I know As a kid I had this little wood…

I don’t know if any of you have seen the movie Joker, but there’s this one line from it—just before he murders a talk show host—that the Joker laments that “nobody’s civil anymore,” and that people will walk past their fellow man’s suffering. The movie came out in 2019, and boy, oh boy, did we…

Without a doubt, my favourite TV show of all time is Doctor Who. I’m not shy about it, either: I even own a 12-foot scarf that I’ll don from time to time. At any rate, I’ve loved that show since I was a kid and first saw the TARDIS graced with the likes of Christopher…

Earlier today, the UK and the British Commonwealth of Nations—in fact, the whole world—witnessed the first coronation of a British monarch in 70 years. With the rest of my family here, in Canada, I woke up at an ungodly hour to watch the historic event. I was initially expecting all the pomp and circumstance that…

“God is someone who calls people to die.” This may be a tad hyperbolic, but it’s what a very dear friend of mine told me when I myself was confronted by a difficult choice. What he said was shocking, and it perhaps offends our modern sensibilities, however I do believe there is some truth in…

If you’ve ever been to Southern Ontario in the middle of July, you would know how disgusting our summer humidity can be. Just over a year ago now, there was this one day that was particularly bad, and as I walked into a Fish n Chips shop near my work, I said to a man…