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
What to expect when no one’s expecting: America’s coming demographic disaster by Jonathan V. Last Encounter Books, 2013 ISBN: 978-1-59403-641-5 In 1796 Thomas Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population in which he maintained that the population of the world increases geometrically with time while food supplies increase only arithmetically. Hence at some[…]
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Septem Verba a Christo Featuring Akademie für Alte Musik / René Jacobs (Conductor) Harmoia Mundi, 2013 ASIN: B00A6U5B6M In English the title of this long-forgotten masterpiece is The Seven Words Uttered by the Dying Christ on the Cross. It was scored for orchestra and soli: bass (Christ) and tenor, soprano, countertenor (Anima or Soul)[…]
Dear Brother and Sisters, Thank you for having taken part in these moments of deep prayer. I also thank those who have accompanied us through the media, especially the sick and elderly. I do not wish to add too many words. One word should suffice this evening, that is the Cross itself. The Cross is[…]
A young man had contracted an incestuous match with his cousin before a Protestant Minister. Fr. Arrowsmith, who performed his functions in those parts, often reproved the unhappy youth, but a person obstinately entangled in sin cannot forgive a monitor. This raised the malice of the incestuous young man and his mother; and as they[…]
We haven’t heard very much about the so-called clergy abuse crisis recently, but you can be sure that if the mainstream media manages to find some obscure, outdated case they will gleefully splash it on their soiled canvas. Thing is, there is actually a great deal to report, and it’s all good news. In the[…]
You may take the shamrock from your hat and cast it on the sod, But ’twill take root and flourish still, tho’ under foot it’s trod. from The Wearing of the Green by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) For the past forty years, it has been easy to think that the Church has been diminishing, that the[…]
Our March 2014 cover artist, Joseph Ferrant, is the sixth of eight children. He is currently studying English and Theatre at Redeemer University and is a student at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom. He has been drawing for quite a long time, and has studied art formally at the Academy of Realist Art in Toronto.[…]
They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labour and laughter as a tired man looks at flies. – G. K. Chesterton, The Secret People I learned my views about money from my father when I was about eleven years old. My dad worked at one of the[…]
My fiancé can sit for hours reading the news. First he cycles through his favourite Spanish papers, and then he ventures into the English ones. His interest in “the news” verges almost on obsession, and he doesn’t understand my aversion to most news sources. If I do read a paper, I will turn immediately to[…]
