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
Yesterday was, or would have been had it not been the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time, the feast of Pope Saint John Paul II, crowned as the 264th Pope on October 22nd, 1978, and passing into his eternity on April 2, 2005. We have therefore gone twelve years without his charismatic, joyful, exuberant, highly intelligent,[…]
Hubris may be defined, in accord with its roots in the hierarchic Greek culture from which the term derives, as thinking more of oneself than one’s talents, charisms, circumstances and office, permit. Our modern leaders seem rather full of it, and I mean hubris, acting as though their position bestows on them a wisdom and[…]
“My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?” (Matthew 22:12) I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. (Revelation 21:2) The wedding industry is a lucrative billion-dollar industry. Mention the word “wedding”[…]
Sainte Marguerite D’Youville (1701-1771. Feast, October 16th) I have to laugh when they call me a dangerous woman; A woman of ill-repute; a drunken whore. It’s true that my step-father was merely a commoner, And my husband, bless his soul, was little more Than a profligate philanderer who made money By selling liquor to the[…]
I am known by many names like Beelzebul, Mephistopheles, or Satan. When I was created, God called me Lucifer, but I prefer–Prince of Darkness. He literally fired me before the Big Bang for my arrogance, selfishness, and disobedience and banished me forever to Earth after it came into existence. For this reason, I detest God[…]
The Ontario Legislature has just passed second reading on a bill to limit witness and protests outside abortion ‘clinics’ within a 50 metre ‘bubble zone’, as well as hospitals, pharmacies and the homes of abortion-providers, a euphemism for professional clinical and well-compensated assassins of unborn children. The sad, sad thing is that one expects this[…]
We celebrate today the feast of Saint Ignatius of Antioch (35-107 A.D.), one of the earliest Fathers of the Church, bishop of the same city as Saint Peter, the third in succession after the first Pope, before Peter himself, inspired by God, moved on to Rome, baptizing, if you will, that centre of pagan worship[…]
Patrick Brown, the erstwhile leader of the provincial ‘Conservative’ party, and I use those square quotes advisedly, has decreed that there are to be no ‘social conservative’ raised at the upcoming convention. Now, that might seem ambiguous, for any issue is by definition ‘social’, but here, in politico-speak, deviating from normal and logical English, it[…]
Charles E. Rice (1931-2015), a Thomist philosopher and professor of law at Notre Dame University, was a consistent conservative on matters political and theological. In 1993 he wrote a book that, if it had been published in 1963, might have had greater impact on stemming the rising tide of moral relativism and the nearly total[…]
A grace-filled hundredth anniversary of the final apparition at Fatima, as Our Lady appeared for last time to the three seers on this day in October, 1917, during some of the worst days of World War I, and just before the Spanish Influenza would kill millions across the globe. Unlike most flus, this on targeted[…]
