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
Well, it has happened, as expected: After a rather perfunctory debate, Australia has caught up with history and the current mind-numbing zeitgeist and, like another domino, fallen to that whole-cloth fiction of same-sex ‘marriage’. And this, twelve long years after Canada did so, way back in 2005, when our then Prime Minister, Paul Martin, after[…]
Walker Percy (1916-1990), born and raised in the South, was a member of that rare breed of southern Catholic writers. His grandfather and later his father committed suicide. Then followed a car accident in which his mother died, Percy concluding on his own that this was yet another suicide. Out of the ashes of such[…]
One might think that the intended raising of the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2019 is a Wynne win for the little guy, struggling away to make ends meet, flipping burgers, waiting tables, mopping floors, and for some it might be just such a small but pyrrhic victory. I am all for doing[…]
A blessed, holy and joyful Advent to all, as we begin a new liturgical year this evening. The ancient expectation for the arrival of Christ goes back to the Jewish people, the Magi, the Gentiles, waiting for the ‘Messiah’, Emmanuel, ‘God with us’, the anointed One who would free us from the evils of this[…]
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,[…]
