Have a Pint in Lent – It’s Saint Patrick’s Day!

Saint Patrick, the Irish, and Lent are all to thank for popularized celebration of Saint Patrick’s Day (which is very much secularized, but undeniably Catholic in tradition). It is nice to know that the world wholeheartedly embraces this Catholic tradition, which just goes to show that the Catholic roots of the Western World cannot be denied. … Read more

Concrete Faith, Hope, and Charity for Today’s Man

Faith, Hope, and Charity are those superstar virtues that are provided to us by God to enrich and fulfill our lives. They are also those three virtues that we gift directly back to God, because all three, Faith, Hope, and Charity, were designed to have God, our Heavenly Father, as their focus and object. A virtue just can’t … Read more

Toronto Maple Leafs: Hope Lives Here – Part 2

< Continued From Part 1 Hope that triumphs both discouragement and abandonment is the Theological Hope in God that we are meant to live out in our Manly lives. Life throws us discouragement, frustration, disappointment, sadness, anger, ….abandonment…. And sometimes we’re close to throwing in the towel with God. Sometimes we do throw in the towel. We … Read more

Toronto Maple Leafs: Hope Lives Here – Part 1

I wasn’t born into a hockey family. (I know, I’m Canadian. It’s supposed to be in my blood, Eh?) It wasn’t until about grade 6 that I began taking an interest in hockey. Naturally, my favorite team became the Toronto Maple Leafs. And from the young age of 10 or 11, I began to really … Read more

Faith and Apologetics: Be a Reasonable Catholic

More and more, I’m beginning to discover the importance of Apologetics to the cause of the New Evangelization, thanks in part to the people who surround me. In our day and age, there is no excuse for ignorance of our Faith. There is great need, in our world of sin and skepticism, to be able … Read more