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
It is a curious situation in the Church that we have two living Popes, one of them a resigned, retired Pope ’emeritus’. One is reminded of the situation from 1294 to 1296, when Pope Celestine V, a monk whom the cardinals had made Pope to help reform the papacy, resigned, with the new Pope,[…]
A bag piping Scotsman was recently fined in Montreal for carrying an ‘illegal weapon’, namely, his sgian-duh, literally his ‘black’, but more properly his ‘hidden’ knife, tucked into his thick Highland socks. I wondered at the triple standard: Sikhs are permitted by law to carry their own ceremonial daggers, so why not bagpipers? And the[…]
Deacon Jean-Nil Chabot, Ph. D, responds to my most recent editorial: Generally speaking I would not differ from what you wrote, but I will express my opinion (no, I say, the truth!) regarding moving Canada’s debt to the trillion dollar Rubicon. The truth is, there is no real debt. The real wealth was no produced by those who[…]
A blessed All Souls to all. Over the next eight days, you may gain a plenary indulgence for visiting a cemetery and praying for the dead, with the usual conditions. All the faithful departed, requiescant in pace.
I have an article on the ‘requirements for political office, posted this morning on Crisis magazine. Again, feel free to peruse, and I will post it here in a few days. And speaking of ambition, there are so many contenders in the upcoming race for leadership of the Federal Conservative Party that I have lost[…]
There was another earthquake in Italy the other day (October 30th), in the town of Norcia, the birthplace of Saint Benedict, where there are a group of Benedictines, men and women’s Orders, that adhere to the way things were done in the days of their founder in the 6th century. Well, not exactly, since they[…]
L’Arche, the community founded by Jean Vanier, has clarified his ambiguous comments upon euthanasia, upon which I wrote a few months ago. You can read their brief, one page comments here, and make up your own minds how clear they are. I find that there is still a trace of ambiguity in this clarificatio, but[…]
Halloween has always been a complicated holiday, laced together with many threads of different spiritual traditions and cultural customs. It has always stirred up controversy, morphing into an excuse for mischief and mayhem and a celebration of ghoulishness which has led some to boycott it altogether. But perhaps this is a hasty decision, which fails[…]
Some stories sum up the insanity of our world in a way I find almost profound. Apparently, a male homosexual sperm donor donated his ‘seed’ to a female friend, back when they were in medical school together. She raised the children, both now teenagers, while he stayed involved to some degree in their lives, as[…]
Much of the Western world is split by issues pertaining to politics, economics, race, gender, sexual orientation and religion. No doubt, these issues need to be adequately assessed and dealt within a morally prudent and logical manner. This is especially true in light of the upcoming presidential election between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton. […]
