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
This evening at 7:30 p.m., on the Feast of the Visitation, fittingly enough celebrated on the last day in the month of May dedicated to Our Lady, Father Scott McCaig, the Moderator of the Companions of the Cross, will be ordained a bishop of the Catholic Church, for the Military Vicariate. I knew Father Scott[…]
Alas, the capitulations continue. A few days ago, I listened on the CBC to an interview with the great Jean Vanier, the founder of L’Arche, which cares for severely handicapped and developmentally challenged people, heroic work that I could scarcely consider doing. I visited the L’Arche in Inverness, Scotland in 2003, when two of my[…]
I received a rather critical email in response to my last post on the Conservative capitulation, so thought I should clarify my, and hopefully your own, thoughts: As I wrote, there may be nothing wrong with capitulation or compromise. Sometimes, they are necessary to achieve a greater good, or avoid a greater evil. When and[…]
Year: 2012 Filming: Color Length: 127 minutes Genre: Drama/Adventure/Fantasy Maturity: PG-13 (for intense themes, scary images, and fantasy violence) Cast: Kristen Stewart (Snow White), Chris Hemsworth (the Huntsman), Charlize Theron (Ravenna), Sam Claflin (Prince William), Sam Spruell (Finn), Ian McShane (Beith), Bob Hoskins (Muir), Ray Winstone (Gort), Nick Frost (Nion), Eddie Marsan (Duir), Toby Jones (Coll), Johnny Harris (Quert), Brian Gleeson[…]
To capitulate derives from the Latin root capis, capitis, ‘head’, and literally means to cease to resist an opponent by drawing up terms under ‘headings’ or ‘chapters’. So any mutual agreement is a kind of capitulation, as many of you who are married may attest. Hence, the term is connected with that of compromise, where[…]
Today is the feast of Saint Philip Neri (+1595), the second Apostle of Rome, and the founder of the Oratory, whose houses are now found throughout the world (Bd. John Henry Newman brought the Oratory to England). As you may know from my brief biography, I lived and studied at the Toronto Oratory, and owe[…]
Last week, I was walking through Ottawa, and what greeted me on the vast lawn in front of the Parliament buildings was a sight to behold: Hundreds of raised posteriors in various tight-fitting spandex doing yoga exercises, to the voice of an unseen young woman on a remote microphone. I was quite literally flabbergasted, and[…]
I share one thing in common with feminists: I’ve never understood the women who call themselves “pro-life feminists.” Being pro-abortion is not only the feminist mainspring, but it is the sole test question that says whether you’re in or out. Feminism is becoming increasingly trivial on small issues while being hostile to the one that[…]
Most readers will have seen the bizarre behaviour of the Prime Minister yesterday evening. As witnesses and the video record attest, Mr. Trudeau, in an apparent fit of pique at what he perceived to be a deliberate delay on the part of some Conservative members returning to their seats, strode angrily towards MP Gord Brown[…]
*Today would have been the 96th birthday of Pope Saint John Paul II, who died just shy of his 85 birthday. Very few Popes have reached this venerable age; Pope Leo XIII, the oldest reigning pontiff known to history, reached his 93rd year. I know not how old John Paul/Karol is in heaven. Not having[…]
