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
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[…]
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[…]
Although I agree with much of what Father Raymond de Souza says in his recent column in the National Post, I must respectfully disagree with his comparison between the recent ‘bubble zone’ law in the Ontario, and the ‘niqab’ law in Quebec. He is correct, that both laws stem from regimes that can be described as[…]
A Catholic Goes to the Movies, a collection of thirty-seven film reviews by Daniel Callam, C.S.B., is now available from Justin Press. The author founded The Canadian Catholic Review and edited it from 1983 until 1997. The reviews found in this book were originally published in The Chesterton Review. Father Callam’s witty and insightful analysis[…]
Conclusion (What follows is the conclusion to Father Daniel Callum’s, C.S.B, new book, “A Catholic Goes to the Movies”, just published by Justin Press. For details on the book, and the upcoming book launch on November 19th at Holy Rosary Church in Toronto, please see the Nota in Brevis section.) Editor. The ancient Greeks, whom[…]
Well, alas, as expected, Ontario passed the ‘bubble-zone’ law yesterday, as our once-noble Dominion creeps, or careens as the case may be, ever-closer to thanatophilic totalitarianism. Also, as expected, the vote was rather much the same as the second reading a few days ago, with only one MPP voting against, Jack MacLaren of the Trillium[…]
The recent ban in the province of Quebec on the niqab, the Islamic face-covering, when receiving ‘public services’ (reserved, of course, only for females) has raised a number of questions. Is the State interfering in religious freedom? Should Muslims, and Muslim women in particular, have the right to cover their face? (The underlying and, for[…]
