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
One can get the measure of a man not from his guarded, careful behaviour, but rather from his occasional slip-up, his less careful moments, when the ‘true self’ comes forth. Such was the case in Sherbrooke, Quebec the other day, when the Prime Minister, on his largely unscripted tour, at least so the story goes,[…]
Here are a few articles of note, that I would recommend: Father Raymond on Amoris. An excellent reflection on the current and likely future status of the controversial ‘Chapter 8’ of Amoris Laetitia. Hilary Mantel’s on the Reformation. Patricia Snow in First Things offers a very insightful analysis of Mantel’s revisionist historical novel on the[…]
Pray for the victims in Kyrgyzstan, where a cargo plane crashed into a village in the middle of the night, killing 33, including women and children, as they slept in their homes. One truly knows not the day nor the hour, and, as Our Lord prophesied, we may be taken even from our very beds. […]
Stephen Gordon argues that it is a good thing that Canada does not have an ‘elite’ university like Harvard (and, by extension one may presume, no ‘ivy league’ universities at all). His argument, from my brief perusal, is that everyone should benefit from a university education, since it leads to higher salaries, which is why[…]
Father Scott Murray Scorsese’s film adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s Silence is true to the original. In fact, I don’t believe I have ever seen a movie that so closely follows its source. There are, of course, small changes and not all of Fr. Rodrigues’ interior monologues and narrations make their way into the film, but[…]
Today is the feast of Saint Hilary of Poitiers (310-367), Bishop and Doctor of the Church, who was such a brilliant foe of the fourth century heresy that denied the divinity of Christ he is known as the Malleus Arianorum, the Hammer of the Arians. The main part of his life follows upon the Council[…]
One can only hope that Justin Trudeau’s sense of entitlement and noblesse is finally catching up to him. Even the secular media, who have placed their halo around his hallowed locks, are in consternation at his bizarre New Year’s holiday on the private island of Agha Khan, whose full name and title are Prince Shah[…]
Whenever the census in Canada rolls round, I suspect that I am one of the few people who, in the box where one reports languages spoken in the home, must honestly write Latin. Since the birth of my first of four sons seven years ago, I have spoken almost entirely in Latin to them. Why?[…]
From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge—a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes,[…]
Another day, yet another terrorist attack, this time in Israel, where a Palestinian, an ‘ISIS sympathizer’, drove a truck through a squad of Israeli soldiers, backing over his victims, before being shot to death by Israeli soldiers and a ‘tour guide’. Hmm. Even the tour guides are armed in lsrael, which is always on edge. […]
