Lewis is a Toronto writer.
May 5, 2017
In mid-April The Globe & Mail gave two days of coverage to the suicide of Adam Maier-Clayton, just 27 years old. He lived for years with a variety of psychiatric disorders and unremitting pain. There is no doubt he knew suffering.
March 23, 2017
At the end of the last millennium, gay marriage was not yet a reality and the idea of legalized euthanasia was considered ridiculous. Abortion was of course an issue, but there seemed some hope that the lawless practice would at least become regulated.
March 9, 2017
It was a story that slipped through public consciousness like a shadow, first ominous then quickly evaporated and forgotten.
February 23, 2017
For many years I have enjoyed a group of Catholic writers who hit their stride roughly in the middle of the 20th century.
February 10, 2017
Recent events have been dark and disturbing. First we saw U.S. President Donald Trump put a “temporary” travel and immigration ban on seven mostly Muslim countries. Then there was the tragedy in Quebec City where six men were killed and several wounded while praying.
January 8, 2017
Adolph Hitler rose to power in January 1933. Later that year, Fr. Clemens August Graf von Galen was appointed bishop of Münster.
January 5, 2017
I have a long love affair with St. Thomas Aquinas, the 13th-century philosopher, theologian, teacher, writer and Dominican preacher who stands among the most important Catholic thinkers of the past 2,000 years.
December 22, 2016
I just read about a priest in Italy who took down a crèche because he feared it would offend non-Christians. There was no indication he was forced to do it, but it seems he decided to be proactive just in case.
December 15, 2016
We all look for signs of hope. Many Catholics cling to anything that points away from secular smugness to a world in which the name “Christ” is not used as an expletive.
November 3, 2016
George Weigel might just be the most important lay Catholic at work today. The American writer’s books, essays, newspaper columns and lectures address the importance of defending the Catholic faith, and religion in general, from the assault of radical secularism.