Spirit & Life

Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

Pushing Back Against the Extremism of the Gender Idealogues

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | February 23, 2026 |

Isadora Borges is a 34-year-old veterinary student from Paraíba, Brazil. She is not a politician, a lobbyist, or the leader of any protest movement. She is simply a young woman who, in November 2020, posted two comments on X stating what the vast majority of human beings have always understood: that a person born male…

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Affirmation Is Not Compassion: Lessons from the Tumbler Ridge Shooting

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | February 16, 2026 |

Mass shootings in Canada are extremely rare. Thus, it was with a sense of horrified disbelief that Canadians received the news that an active shooter had invaded a school in the small community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, last week. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), police first received an alert about an…

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