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
Recently I was startled to realize, it being so uneasy a reminder of my own mortality, that the eminent French philosopher Jacques Maritain has been dead going on half a century. I never met him in person. I was bold enough at the age of sixteen, when he was well into his seventies, to send[…]
Pope Saint Leo the Great, who reigned from 440 until his death on this day in 461, was known for many things. With his wise mind, his magnanimous soul and zeal, he helped solidify the papacy, and the role of the ‘Holy Father’, which would be further clarified by subsequent pontiffs, not least Gregory, also[…]
On November 1, Governor General (GG) Julie Payette was a keynote speaker at the Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa. She touched upon a variety of issues including climate change, horoscopes, the origin of life, alternative medicine and divine “intervention.” In this piece I would like to focus on her comments regarding religion and[…]
A profitable read for this morning is another fine, precise and elucidating article by Father Rutler, on this quasi-anniversary of the Russian Revolution (as he mentions, they still used the older Julian calendar back then, resisting the corrections mandated by Pope Gregory XIII in 1584). As I wrote the other day, the Russian revolutionaries, Bolsheviks[…]
The apple falls not far from the tree: Prince William, son of Charles of the same title, albeit of a different region of England (Cambridge vs Wales), has come to the conclusion, just like dear old Dad, and, come to think of it, Dad before him (Philip, of Edinburgh), that there are there are ‘too[…]
Alas, it is difficult to absorb, but another massacre has been perpetrated in the United States: This time a troubled 26 year old father, dishonorably discharged from the Air Force, walked into a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, during their Sunday service, killing at least 26 people, including children, and the pastor’s teenage daughter,[…]
You’ve probably heard about the recent speech by our newly minted Governor-General: Ms. Julie Payette, whose task it is to stand in for the Queen in a ceremonial way, went way beyond ceremony, and began pontificating on the superiority of science over faith. In fact, mocking religion, she put anyone who holds such quaint notions as[…]
“Give Me A Voice” joins well-loved Catholic programs in its October schedule TORONTO, October 25, 2017 – Radio Maria Canada, a 24-hour Catholic radio station committed to being an ‘outstretched hand’ to all persons of good will, announces the addition of “Give Me a Voice” to its fall program schedule. Airing on Tuesdays at 8[…]
If you are an average web-surfer, chances are you will spend about 10 seconds looking at this article. Those of you who stick around for a little longer will probably read 18% or less of the content on this page. That, at least, was the finding of a study conducted by Jokob Nielsen, a web-page[…]
Mere days after Our Lady’s final apparition at Fatima on October 13, 1917, the Bolsheviks took power over Russia and quickly established a totalitarian communist dictatorship. Suddenly, the infrastructure was in place for the fulfillment of her prediction that Russia would spread its errors throughout the world. According to the Russian calendar, the date of[…]
