A happy First Sunday of Lent – we hope you enjoy the Lenten reflections.
As well, a joyous Leap Year to one and all, the only time when, in Ireland, so custom goes, a woman may propose to a man, a custom that may soon be outlawed in our transgendered world. Leap years were standardized in their modern form with the calendar instituted by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, in modifying the earlier Julian version.
Under our tragic – in more ways than one – Trudeau government has more or less abolished the euthanasia restrictions put in place when the macabre practice was first legalized. There are still some paper-thin safeguards, but more or less anyone now with a ‘serious illness’ can be offed the same day he asks – and if you have given an ‘advanced directive’, you can still be murdered even if you later apparently change your mind. I will have more to say on this soon.