After having served 18 days in prison, the Rev. Walter Hoye is a free man and will remain so -- as long as he doesn't come within eight feet of anyone who is about to enter an Oakland abortion clinic.
During the persecution of Christians in the reign of Marcus Aurelius, the Roman prefect Rusticus was frustrated by the serene equanimity of the Christian convert Justin, a Platonic philosopher.
Years ago I was involved in a CBC Online discussion forum on the topic of Robert Latimer. Most of those participating in the forum were in favor of Latimers decision to murder his daughter and regarded him as a courageous man.
Those of us who profess the Catholic Faith still have a way of beholding the world that marks us apart from our neighbors.
In my youth, it was a push-pull relationship -- needing her, yet pushing her out of my life at the same time.
The Cadet Prayer at West Point calls upon God, "Searcher of human hearts," to help these future soldiers live above "the common level of life,"
More than most nations, America has been, from its start, a hero-loving place.
It is always a blessing to meet the Pope, but I did not expect the blessing of meeting him at the Western Wall.
When word came of his death, I was literally planning the particulars of a trip to Washington for the inaugural conference of Pepperdine University's Jack F. Kemp Institute for Political Economy.
For all too many years, eminent novelist and biographer A.N. Wilson was a self-satisfied atheist, a proud member of the British unbelieving intelligentsia, along with Richard Dawkins and expatriate Christopher Hitchens. But no more. Andrew Norman Wilson has come home.