The heart of that doctrine, that synthesis of the Law, is what we celebrate this week in marking the 50thanniversary of ShareLife, the charitable fundraising arm of the Archdiocese of Toronto.

In an immediate response to the bombardment of Iran, Pope Leo urged an end to the violence and a resumption of diplomacy – jaw-jaw over war-war in the immortal words of a British prime minister.

The great 20th century journalist G. K. Chesterton famously noted that the proof of Original Sin is the front page of the daily newspaper.

“Let us ask for the grace of a Lent that leads us to greater attentiveness to God and to the least among us…for the strength that comes from the type of fasting that also extends to our use of language, so hurtful words may diminish and… our communities (become) places where the cry of those who suffer finds welcome.”

High on the list of the most frequent letters we receive from readers are calls for Prime Minister Mark Carney to start demonstrating his Catholic bona fides.

In the discussions leading up to the conclave last May, members of the College of Cardinals shared that they wished for more collegiality between themselves and the pope.

In the early days of 2026, a columnist for Our Sunday Visitor news service pinpointed an all-too-often ignored danger of our all-too-pervasive social media environment.

Amid the global gore and Greenlandization of our current moment, fears about the image generator known as Grok offered by Elon Musk’s X might seem genuinely gratuitous.

The strong temptation is to respond to a case now before the B.C. Supreme Court by demanding Dying with Dignity and other pro-medical homicide lobby groups stop shoving their immorality down our throats.

The familiar claim that war solves nothing must be balanced off with the acknowledged wisdom that peace is not the mere absence of war.