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
The Second Vatican Council opened on this day in 1962, and ran until 1965, producing sixteen documents, four of them ‘constitutions’, which have profoundly shaped the Church in the modern world (the title of one of the aforementioned constitutions). This is also the day chosen by the Church to commemorate the pontiff who called and[…]
(On this Thanksgiving morning, you might enjoy this wonderful poem from a Canadian mother, on the philosophy, nay, the very theology, of washing dishes, a noble act filled with spiritual significance. I do not own a dishwasher, and hope never to. So on with the scrubbing, and a joyful Thanksgiving to all! Gratias Deo![…]
Today is the memorial of the Holy Rosary, a feast instituted by Pope Saint Pius V in commemoration of the Christian naval fleet in the victory at Lepanto on this day in 1571, vastly outnumbered against the Ottoman Turks, who had turned the Mediterranean into an Islamic lake. The Pope asked Christians to pray the[…]
David Warren has an interesting take on the Catalonian independence movement: I had never considered the role of women in pant-suits, who now seem to govern most Western countries, in all this revolution and social change business. Whatever Saint Paul meant by that mysterious admonition to Timothy, that he would not have a woman have[…]
Something is definitely odd about the gunman and the shooting massacre in Vegas: A 64 year-old multi-millionaire accountant with no military training, no record, apparently a gambling addict, holed up in a hotel room for four days, bringing in nearly two dozen high-powered automatic rifles, sets at least a few up on stands, along with[…]
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” – Supreme Court decision Buck vs. Bell Carrie Buck was 17 when she was forced to enter the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded. Records indicate Carrie received average grades in elementary school, but she was admitted to the Colony on the grounds of feeblemindedness and[…]
A gunman in Las Vegas has murdered over fifty people, and seriously injured many more, in an hour long shooting rampage, apparently using a high-powered, high-calibre machine gun, perched 32 storys above the ground (well above 500 feet), picking off concert-goers like they were targets in a video game. But this was no game, nor[…]
I strongly encourage anyone who is discouraged or depressed to read the third chapter of the book of Tobit. In this passage, two people who are righteous, devout and courageous begged for death—not because of any kind of material hardship or physical persecution, but because of the undeserved insults and reproaches of those closest[…]
The feast of the Archangels, formerly known, and in some circles still is, as the feast of Michaelmas, after the one who is ‘like God’, celebrates those spiritual beings who stand mid-way between Man and God. The three commemorated on this feast are those who played a significant role in salvation history: Raphael, ‘God heals’,[…]
Today is the feast of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz (+1637) and his companion martyrs, put to death by the anti-Catholic shogunate in Japan, and who are now patrons of the Philippines. They were tortured in the same manner as the semi-fictional protagonstis in Shusako Endo’s book/film Silence; but unlike the sad, ironic story, Lorenzo and his[…]
