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
Patron saint of scientists, Albert the Great (1200-1280), scholar, Dominican, bishop, and Doctor of the Church, was considered the most learned man of his century, with an encyclopedic knowledge of just about everything under the Sun, in an age when one could truly be a renaissance man before the inaccurately-named era of the same name.[…]
As an addendum to my recent reflections on the sexual scandals inundating Hollywood, I highly recommend this read from psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple on the effects of the sexual revolution, and libertinism, on the front lines of society. To say the least, it is not pretty.
In a radio address on October 26, 1946, with the horrors of World War II still fresh (if such be the term) in the minds of all, Pius XII declared that perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin. The Holy Father knew what[…]
On the sad state of our educational system, at all levels, one could wax eloquent for many hours. We have the well-compensated teachers at our colleges, having now been on strike for weeks, using the students as pawns in their game of monetary poker. Such is the effect of a state-funded system, rife with endemic[…]
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,[…]
