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
Richard Dawkins, like his intellectual forebears David Hume, Feurbach, Emile Zola and countless others, claims not to be religious. In saying so, he is not being entirely honest, for whether Dr. Dawkins realizes it or not, Man by his very nature is a religious being. Aristotle claimed that Man was a rational and, therefore, a political, animal[…]
Tomorrow, besides being the much more important solemnity of Corpus Christi (at least here in Canada, more on which in a bit) is also Father’s Day, and a recent discussion I heard on the CBC debated whether such a commemoration, along with the complementary and longer-standing Mother’s Day, is inherently discriminatory. After all, what of[…]
Pursuant to my thoughts this morning on Kathleen Wynne’s splashing other people’s money around to further fund the public service and, as a happy accidental (?) addendum, also ensure her and her Liberals a whole swathe of guaranteed votes in the next election, I mentioned that if this larcenous largesse does not stop, we will[…]
Alexis de Tocqueville is proved right once again, that the tyranny of the majority lies inherent in any democracy. Our erstwhile Premier, Kathleen Wynne, has just brazenly approved an across-the-board 7.5% pay raise for government provincial employees, with not even a concession on their part, a veritable largesse, courtesy of the over-burdened taxpayer, held in[…]
Viggo Mortensen, the same actor who played Strider/Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, seems to enjoy getting naked in his non-Tolkien films, evincing, perhaps, certain latent exhibitionist fantasies: In Eastern Promises, he fought off, el fresco, two Russian mobsters in a steam bath; in The Road, he chucked it all to swim out[…]
Games. Always playing games. Filling up the mind with plotting, and our heart’s surge crested with the thrill. Our little games, so all-important to us in the apex of victory or the crush of defeat, so turbulent as the rush of adrenalin. We are making love with conflict. We love to choose our sides, for[…]
There is a curious connection with today’s memorial of Saint Anthony of Padua, the place in Italy where he died (in 1231), for he is also known as Saint Anthony of Lisbon, the place in Portugal where he was born (in 1195). There has been quite a long historical struggle over who ‘owns’ the saint[…]
We celebrate in our particular diocese today the feast of Saint Columbkille (521-597), an Irish monk from Donegal on the wild west coast of the emerald isle, whose Gaelic name means ‘dove of the Church’, a name which does not, ironically, fit either his historical appearance or demeanour. Columbkille is described as being of[…]
An interesting factoid I recently came across, one borne out by anecdotal evidence, is that 3 out of 10 Americans now have tattoos, and I presume that number to be at least as high in Canada, signifying widespread acceptance of a practice that was once relegated to 19th century British sailors, who in turn adopted[…]
If you are interested in an unmasking of the deep anti-Catholic bias in Hollywood, feel free to peruse an article of mine this morning in Crisis, which uses last year’s Captain Fantastic as a paradigm of what the media elites really think about Christians, and Catholicism in particular. Of course, the Hollywood view is inadvertently[…]
