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
As we approach the end of this calendar year, we should give thanks to God for all the blessings He has sent, for the multitude of gifts and graces, often hidden beneath what seems banality or even outright suffering. The primary purpose of this life is a journey to the next, and as Saint Augustine[…]
I have to suppress a knowing smile (well, come to think of it, I don’t suppress it at all) when I hear of science ‘discovering’ something that the Church has known all along. Such occurred in 1927 when the Belgian priest-mathematician-cosmologist, Father Georges LeMaitre, using Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity (published in a short treatise[…]
This ‘Urbi et Orbi’ (to the city and to the world) address of Pope Saint John Paul II from 2002 has lost none of its significance. The world fifteen years on is much the same as it was back then, if we can think of the beginning of the millennium as ‘back then’. May the[…]
A very merry, blessed and joyous Christmas to all our readers, which we hope is filled with God’s grace and good cheer. Someone sent me this morning these words from Scott Hahn, which are worth reflecting on as we celebrate and rejoice with what families we have, or are part of, wherever you may be,[…]
(One might have different views on the Santa legend, and whether or not to present (no pun intended) this story to children, as literal truth, as a myth, as an archetype of at least some of what ‘Christmas’ means. What follows is one take. One may also ponder this article defending the Santa story, linked[…]
(Since a number of reviews of the latest Star Wars entry are making the rounds, including one rather odd one in First Things that seems to turn these outings into actual philosophically-deep musings, I thought I would republish this review I wrote when I had the misfortune of watching the first in this new series[…]
In this last week of Advent, there are two saints, oft overlooked, celebrated in a muted way each year: Peter Canisius (1521 – 1597), a Dutch Jesuit who traversed thousands of miles across Europe in his ministry, and John of Cantius (1390 – 1473), a Polish priest and professor at the University of Krakow. They[…]
Not long until Christmas now, as we have now hit December 20th, with five brief days until the solemnity, and just over two weeks until 2018. Speaking of which, I heard on CBC radio this morning, driving back from Mass while visiting family in Guelph, that things are not looking all that rosy for next[…]
Like the seemingly inextinguishable California wildfires, the aptly named ‘Pervnado’ continues its own incineration of the careers of various media and political types, all of them males, almost all of them white. Curiously, so far, sports and music figures, whose proclivities in these domains are notorious, have been rather immune, but their time may come.[…]
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704), bishop of Meaux, lived in a time shortly after the Reformation. A bishop of much lustre, Bossuet frequented Versailles, preaching before court and king, was tutor to the Dauphin, and even held correspondence with such a philosophical giant as Leibniz for a time. His oratorical skills have been ranked ahead of[…]
