Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Our June 2013 cover artist is Veronica Bornyi, an iconographer from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. What is this piece about? In this icon, St. Francis is depicted preaching to the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. I wished to show that by his closeness to God, St. Francis learned to enter[…]
Hence the domestic household is antecedent, as well in idea as in fact, to the gathering of men into a community. – Pope Pius XI (Quadragesimo Anno) Families, be what you are. Pope John Paul II At the top of the last column of this magazine, there is a picture of a wooden sign with[…]
Maurice Baring, Lost Lectures of the Fruits of Experience. Peter Davies Ltd, London: 1932. From: High-Brows and Low-Brows Over and over again it has been my fortune to be told about English literature by foreign high-brows in trains, and to be initiated in the secrets of the literature of my country. I once met a Serbian professor[…]
In the Gospel of St. Matthew, in one of the moments when Jesus returns to his town, to Nazareth, and speaks in the Synagogue, the amazement of his fellow townspeople at his wisdom is emphasized. They asked themselves the question: “Is not this the carpenter’s son?” (13:55). Jesus comes into our history, he comes among us[…]
Several years ago we were in New York City attending the ordination of a friend of mine, a red-headed Ontarian who is now called Fr. Juan Diego and belongs to the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. These friars are the modern embodiment of St. Francis himself. The ordination took place at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and there[…]
The powers that be at Webster’s added twerk to the dictionary the other day and wordsmiths everywhere cried and threw up in their mouths a little. The addition came a day after Miley Cyrus demonstrated the meaning of the word on national television at the Video Music Awards—prancing and grinding herself into the dictionary. I would[…]
