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
At the close of a year online magazines will often post lists of Hollywood’s best and brightest who have married, divorced, reproduced, dated, or broken up over the past year. This year was no different and I found myself scrolling through pictures of seventy-odd marriages that happened in 2013. I got halfway through when I[…]
Highlight of the week: All Hipsters Eventually Become Catholic by Edmund Mitchell “The new hipster loves going to daily Mass at his parish, where the pews are filled with no one under the age of 50. He did it before it was cool.” Of note: “Aaron” (video) A wonderful pro-life short film. Alice von Hildebrand[…]
I travelled back to Calgary for my Christmas holidays, and one of the most entertaining elements of my two weeks there was spending time with my younger siblings. John and I, in particular, spent a lot of time together. He is the four-year-old baby of ten children, and walks into every room firm in the[…]
When a publisher telephones and asks for a new book, written quickly, there is only one response: a high- pitched, only partly controlled “yes.” That the publisher is Random House, who has published my last two books so well and successfully, only emphasizes the experience. I agreed, I wrote it, they and I are pleased[…]
The Catholic blogosphere hit Bottum recently, and hit it very hard indeed—the Bottum in question being Jody, a Catholic journalist and former editor of the highly regarded First Things. He wrote a long article in the little-read Commonweal magazine outlining why he had changed his mind on the subject of same-sex marriage. While I have[…]
There I was in late July, driving to work at 7:30 am, content and peaceful after a weekend with friends in their rural Ontario farm home. Life was good. And then it wasn’t. I turned on the radio as a form of pre-TV show research, and heard that two thousand years of Catholic teaching had[…]
Q. What are the sins that cry to heaven for vengeance? A. …defrauding laborers of their wages. – Quebec Catechism, 1871 On 25 November 2013, the World Trade Organization (WTO) upheld the EU’s ban on seal products from Canada. The EU cites the reason for the ban is “public moral concerns over animal welfare. … that seal[…]
Ever seen American Girl dolls? The dolls are based on characters from different time periods and come with long, detailed stories about where they are from and what their lives are like. Addy is from the Civil War period, Caroline is from 1812, and Kit and Ruthie are from the Great Depression. I think if[…]
