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
Jesus provides us with a motive for acting, viz., the love of God, which in practical terms produces a love of our neighbours. The behaviour of someone whose decisions come from such love will be different from those who act out of self-interest. Consider businesses for instance. Where love is the activating principle, the business[…]
The headline reads: ‘Meaghan Markle is the strong, modern, feminist princess we need right now’. In case you have not heard, Prince Harry, the younger son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s ill-fated marriage, has proposed to the American (well, sort of) actress, and, as I have heard, the ginger-haired most-eligible bachelor scarcely made it[…]
Today is the feast of Saint Andrew, Apostle, brother of Saint Peter, patron of Scotland, Russia, Ukraine and Greece, for reasons that are somewhat historically tenuous. But, as Belloc says, behind every legend, there is always some truth. Of one such, it is told that the ship upon which Andrew was sailing veered off course,[…]
Mount Agung in the Indonesian resort island of Bali is currently erupting, and residents and tourists are waiting to see if it will really blow. No one quite knows what to expect. Already, Agung is spewing thick ash 30,000 feet into the air, cancelling flights, leaving over 50,000 people stranded. Well, look on the bright[…]
Spare a thought for millennials, perhaps the most persecuted sector of our increasingly ignorant and spiritually impoverished society. Denied God and the firm Christian teaching that would help them to make sense of the world in which they live, they are left to their own devices. No wonder they often appear so lost. Pressured and[…]
Pope Francis has begun his visit to Burma, now officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, a nation nestled between India and Bangladesh that is predominantly Buddhist, but with significant Muslim and Christian minorities (about 4 and 6 percent respectively). The troubled nation has been much in the news recently, with apparent violent oppression,[…]
A blessed solemnity of Christ the King to one and all, in this last week before Advent, the last liturgical solemnity of the year, instantiated by Pope Pius XI in 1925 in the aftermath of the tragedy of World War I. As the Holy Father pointed out in his 1922 encyclical Ubi aracni Dei consilo,[…]
Propitiously, we celebrate a triptych of saints on this November day: The first, in time, was Saint Clement (+99 A.D.), traditionally accepted as the third Pope after Saint Peter’s inaugural reign, following Linus and Cletus, as is recited in the Roman Canon (although other traditions place him as the immediate successor to Peter). He is[…]
Victory in battle does not depend on who has the largest army; it is the Lord’s power that determines the outcome (1 Maccabaeus 3:9) Presumably the fact of the Our Lady`s extraordinary apparition on 15th August 1920 is not known at all by the Catholics belonging to Anglo-Saxon culture. No wonder, even in Poland it[…]
More times than I can count I have been told by young men and women that they do not attend Mass because they find it boring. It’s the one statement that cannot be argued against because whatever one says in reply will also be boring. I may not find it so, but I cannot deny[…]
