Perhaps I have imagined that the Catholic Church in Canada is suffering from a death wish. 

I live in Ottawa. Downtown Ottawa. 

The fact that the West has forgotten, or has chosen to forget, what happened in the Ukraine is an obscenity.

Planes are disappearing from the skies, stocks are disappearing from the shelves, and workers are disappearing from their jobs. 

In July 2016, as we were sitting on the fantail of the Swiss sidewheeler Rhone while she chugged across Lake Geneva...

According to Canon Law and the Catechism of the Catholic Church the Seal of Confession is inviolable.

No pontificate is well served when its promoters show contempt and belligerence toward perceived enemies. 

Some years ago, I sat next to a pleasant Norwegian lady who had just moved to London. Her father had been against the move.

Over the past fortnight, some dozen churches in Canada, many serving indigenous people, were torched.