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
We just completed our seventh annual Wojtyla Institute, on the theme of Beauty and Faith (hence, my brief hiatus from writing here) which was a grand success overall: Very fine speakers, lots of discussion and debated, new friendships made and old ones rekindled, all in the midst of the beauty of the Madawaska Valley. I[…]
As a follow up to my recent musings on the firing of the Google engineer for pointing out some basic differences between men and women, I came across this quotation from Pope John Paul II, from his 1994 Letter to Families, Gratissimam Sane, for a more theological take on this most fundamental and rather obvious matter:[…]
A blessed and joyful feast of Saint Lawrence to all, one of the very few non-Apostolic saints to be honoured with a full ‘feast’. A deacon under Pope Sixtus in 258 A.D., Lawrence was put to death a few days after his Pontiff suffered martyrdom. One of his roles was distributing alms, and, hence, had[…]
James Damore, an engineer at Google (or should I say former engineer at Google) was fired recently for sending around a memo criticizing his company’s diversity campaign, aimed particularly at getting more women in engineering and programming positions at the mighty complex. It seems Google is having a tough time filling its quota goals since, unlike[…]
Today is the feast of Saint Dominic, who died on the sixth of August, 1221, having founded one of the great and glorious religious Orders in the Church, the ‘Dominicans’, the ‘domini canes‘, the ‘hounds of God’, as the joke goes. Officially, they are the ‘Order of Preachers’, dedicated to study (they promise, as far[…]
I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. (Genesis 3:16) Ironically, although technological advances have made it possible for the act of parturition (childbirth) itself to be relatively painless, no one can deny that the process of rearing children to be good and responsible members of society[…]
A reminder that Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is offering the annual Wojtyla Institute on the weekend of August 10-13th. This year’s theme is: Beauty & Catholicism: A discussion of Art, Literature, Nature, and concepts of Beauty in the Catholic Tradition. There is a raft of fine speakers on this fundamental topic, for beauty is perhaps[…]
A blessed memorial of Pope Saint Sixtus II and Companion Martyrs, who were beheaded along with six of his deacons in witness to the Faith, on the sixth of August, in the year of our Lord 258, under the persecution of Emperor Valerian. Many priests, bishops and laity were put to death, and Sixtus was[…]
On this day, August 4th, in 1859, the world witnessed the passing into eternity of a most remarkable man, a simple country priest, who lived and worked at the same parish for 41 years, never taking a holiday, nor much of a break at all. He slept little, and ate even less, totally devoted to[…]
The most terrifying scene in the Old Testament occurs in Genesis 22, when God tests Abraham, saying: “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Mo-ri’ah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.” In high-minded moments[…]
