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
Join us in celebrating Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College’s degree-granting status! This event includes a Mass of Thanksgiving (at 3 p.m.), followed by a social, and then the Celebration Banquet, all taking place in Barry’s Bay on Saturday, September 30th. You may purchase your tickets online or by mail and phone. Please find the[…]
Much controversy has been raised by Pope Francis’ recent reconfiguration of the constitutional make-up of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family. As he frames this in his Motu Proprio, Summa familiae cura, this is necessary to adapt to “the new pastoral challenges to which the Christian community is called to respond”. And[…]
Today’s reading, in Saint Paul’s letter to the young bishop Timothy, the Apostle requests all Catholics to ‘pray for those in high places’, for all those carrying that oft-misunderstood quality we call ‘authority’. Whether they are aware of such or not, everyone carrying that burden, however it was laid upon them, by birth, by vote,[…]
A blessed memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows to all, a feast begun in the 1233, in that ‘greatest of centuries’, with the founding in Florence of the ‘Servite’ Order, when seven young men left the world, banded together in community to follow a life of prayer, charity and devotion to the Blessed Mother. They[…]
Monsignor Ronald Knox (1888-1957) is remembered as theologian, translator of the Latin Bible, author of detective stories, novelist, poet, and most of all as Catholic apologist. After a youthful career distinguishing himself with notable academic awards, at the age of 24 he was ordained an Anglican priest. Five years later, partly under the influence of[…]
September 12th marks the anniversary of the Battle of Vienna, in 1683, when the army of the Holy Roman Empire, particularly with the help of the intrepid Polish army under the command of their king, Jan Sobieski, overcame superior odds to crush the onslaught of the advancing Ottoman Turks at the very gates of the[…]
The inchoate and fevered brain of Jennifer Lawrence, the over-feted Hunger Games and X-Men actress, is partly right, that horrific hurricane Irma, now the size of France, moving across the Atlantic like some primitive behemoth, is a punishment of sorts. Ms. Lawrence thinks she is Mother Nature’s revenge on Trump supporters (and by ‘she’, I[…]
There is a lot of talk of immigration of late, and far, far more to come, both of talk, and, more to the point, of immigration itself (see this article by Mark Steyn for his take on the ‘Dreamer’ debate amongst our neighbours to the south). I myself am an immigrant, coming into Canada as[…]
September 5th was the 20th anniversary of the death of Teresa of Calcutta, canonized by Pope John Paul II on September 4th, 2003, but still known colloquially as ‘Mother Teresa’, sometimes with a ‘Saint’ preceding. Her death in 1997 was overshadowed by the tragic, violent and unexpected death of another famous figure, Princess Diana of[…]
Blessed Dina Belanger died on this day in 1929, suffering from tuberculosis, brought on by the scarlet fever she contracted while tending a sick boy. Dina was from a devout Quebec family, and her first calling was as a concert pianist, giving public performances in New York from 1918 to 1921, yet she also had[…]
