Columnists
Jean Elizabeth Seah

Appearances

Curé d’Ambricourt: “I said to her, ‘Peace be with you,’ and she’d received that peace on her knees. What wonder, that one can give what

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Fra Angelico
Columnists
Cristina Montes

October Synthesis

The month of October opens with the feast of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, who is known for having preached “the Little Way”. By reminding us

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Columnists
Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

Acquired Virtues

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, natural virtue (justice, prudence, temperance and courage, and all the subset virtues) are acquired virtues. Acquired virtues are those good-habits

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Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

Catholic Ethics

Catholic ethics is a combination of formal (speculative knowledge) and practical science.  Kant would seem to be entirely formal, while utilitarianism would seem to be

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Fr. Edward Lee Looney

The Marriage of Matthew 25 and 28

This past summer I was working as a hospital chaplain. As part of this group, my three other peers along with a supervisor would meet

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Matthew Higgins

Ain’t Nobody Got Time…Enjoy It

Pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin picking. It seems like I just finished putting away my bathing suit from summer vacation and already I’m seeing

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Columnists
Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

Conscience Rights

In Ontario, unfortunately medical professional’s personal consciences are not respected. Two instances, amongst others pose an immediate and proximate issue: MAID (assisted suicide), and effective

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Columnists
Noel Ethan Tan

The Human Race

We are made for love and connection and justice and nonviolence, but at every turn and in every way we are twisted in the direction

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Kat Larson

Home Is Where the Heart Is

I visited my parents this weekend. This was the first time I saw their new house in their new city. To my surprise, I was

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Columnists
Jean Elizabeth Seah

The Joy and Dignity of Work

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. – James Russell Lowell, poet Ultimately, we all have to decide

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Columnists
Jean Elizabeth Seah

You Are Not Your Sin

In a fit of frustration and anguish (due to my own actions, or lack thereof), my husband did something drastic that he had never done

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What They Don’t Know

I confess that I’m one of those people who woke up on June 26th and immediately grabbed for my laptop, in order to watch the marriage decisions come in

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Columnists
Jean Elizabeth Seah

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was prefigured in the sacrifices of the Old Testament, which had polyvalent significance. Animal and plant sacrifices were used

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Jason Theobald

Man Up

I am writing this on Monday, June 30, 2014, exactly two years after a good friend of mine’s life was cut short. I realize that

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