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Sex, Gender, and Sport

I spoke with Developmental Biologist Emma Hilton about the implications of sexual difference in sport. Available here as a Podcast

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Are Canadian Institutions Politically Captured?

Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of MLI’s Domestic Program, and Senior Fellow Dave Snow discuss the delicate balance of order and freedom in the Canadian political tradition.

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Professional Regulators and Free Expression

Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of MLI’s Domestic Program, interviews Christine Van Geyn, Litigation Director for the Canadian Constitution Foundation, on the growing impact of regulatory creep on free expression in Canada.

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Fratelli Tutti - Dialogue and Friendship in Society

In order to mark the 30th anniversary of the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation, Pope Francis requested that CAPP members and friends read, study, and promote his encyclical letter Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship. In response to this request, CAPP-Canada organized a series of monthly Fratelli Tutti Study Sessions, running from September 2023 to April 16, led by Dr.…

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Patience - Virtues at Work

“Patience is one of the humble, workaday virtues; but it is, in a real sense, the root and guardian of all virtues, not causing them, but removing obstacles to their operation. Do away with patience and the gates are open for a flood of discontent and sin.” St. Thomas Aquinas, comp. to Summa, III, 394 Patience Escalier (1888), by Vincent Van Gogh What is Patience? Patience is a virtue, so the…

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Detachment - Virtues at Work

“Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.” Mahatma Gandhi The…

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Faith & Science across Frontiers

Panel event exploring the intersections of faith and science across a diversity of scientific disciplines, featuring keynote speaker Dr. Jonathan Lunine. About the Society of Catholic Scientists From the website: “The Society of Catholic Scientists is an international organization founded in June of 2016 to foster fellowship among Catholic scientists and to witness to the harmony of faith and…

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Fratelli Tutti - Dialogue and Friendship in Society

Our Mission CAPP-Canada is a national chapter of the Fondazione Centesimus Annus – Pro Pontifice, a Vatican-based lay-run foundation established by Pope John Paul II in 1993, with the primary mission of promoting a deeper knowledge and application of Catholic Social Doctrine among lay Catholics.  In other words, CAPP-Canada seeks to help lay Catholic leaders in Canada form their conscience in…

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Temperance - Virtues at Work

Temperance – Pietro del Pollajolo (1470) “Temperance is a tree which has for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.” Gautama Buddha “The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of…

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Faith & Science across Frontiers

About the Society of Catholic Scientists From the website: “The Society of Catholic Scientists is an international organization founded in June of 2016 to foster fellowship among Catholic scientists and to witness to the harmony of faith and reason. The Society is an answer to the call of Pope St. John Paul II that “members of the Church who are active scientists” be of service to those who are…

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Magnanimity - Virtues at Work

William Adolphe Bouguereau – The Palm Leaf “It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favour, but to be ready to do kindness to others.” Aristotle What is Magnanimity? Magnanimity (magna-anima) is to be ‘great-souled’. It is the opposite of pusillanimity, or ‘small-souledness’, which is to cower and shrink from great goods. It is part of the virtue of courage, which both…

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Loyalty - Virtues at Work

Requiescat – Rest in Peace by Breton Riviere (1888) “Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than loyalty.” Cicero, attributed, Day’s Collacon What is Loyalty? To be loyal is to persist in a valued relationship over time, through difficulties and challenges, ups and downs. Loyalty is a relational virtue, involving a subject or subjects, who exhibit it to individuals, or groups of…

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Leadership - Virtues at Work

General Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses American paratroopers prior to D-Day. Wikimedia commons ‘The greatest among you will be a servant. Those who exalt themselves, will be humbled. Those who humble themselves will be exalted.’ Matthew 23: 11-12 What is Leadership? Leadership is the art of governing, influencing, and guiding a person or group of people toward goals. Leaders are people who…

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Humility - Virtues at Work

Waterwheel at Onden, 1830-1834 by Katsushika Hokusai “A virtue by which a man knowing himself as he truly is, abases himself.” St. Bernard What is Humility? Humility is a virtue that tempers our desires for good things, so that we aim at the right ends with noble and pure motivation shorn of egoism and self-seeking. It comes from the root word ‘humus’, which means to be low to the ground. The…

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Justice - Virtues at Work

In front of the judges, 1903 – Ferdinand Brutt “A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.” – Book of Proverbs, 11:1 What is Justice? Justice is giving others their due, where that ‘due’ is what is owed to them in virtue of their nature. In the most general sense, justice involves equalizing a situation of owing between people or groups of people. What…

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Industriousness - Virtues at Work

Jean François Millet – the Gleaners (1857) “Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.” Charles Spurgeon “To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle as well.” Henry Ward Beecher What is Industriousness? Work is something we all do, every day of our lives. In some way, shape, or form, we labour to…

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Fortitude (Courage) - Virtues at Work

Daniel’s Answer to the King, by B. Pratt after Breton Riviere, 1892 “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Winston Churchill What is Fortitude? Life is full of difficulties and challenges. As St Paul said long ago, “I do not know my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing that I hate.” It is one thing…