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
“All this Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed he said nothing to them without a parable.”[1] Some time ago an American missionary priest—we’ll call him Father Jim—was sent to a village in Nicaragua. He was appalled at the poverty and inertia of people whose spirit had been crushed by a negligent and oppressive[…]
President Trump has launched a retaliatory missile attack on Syria, in response to Bashar al Assad supposedly ‘gassing’ his own people, in his own attempt to crush the ‘rebel’ forces, connected inextricably with radical elements of Islam, dragging out a war that is, or should be, already over, and that no one really wants. Even[…]
April 12th marked the anniversary of the death of Saint Joseph Moscati, an Italian physician, who dedicated his life to helping the sick and the poor, often giving them money along with their prescriptions, taking a vow of chastity so he could focus on this apostolate, helping countless patients, and was one of the first to[…]
“Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.” Lucifer in John Milton’s Paradise Lost On June 7, Kathleen Wynne will be held accountable for the precipitous decline of Ontario since her Liberal Party took power under Dalton McGuinty in 2003. How unpopular is Wynne? Crushingly so, admits the Toronto Star. Not just in the polls, but at[…]
Veritas vos Liberabit– the Truth Will Set You Free (John 8:32). What does it mean to be free? Freedom is an objective good, and a universal desire. We want to be free. Indeed, we were created for it. Our neighbours to the immediate south proudly proclaim their right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of[…]
We celebrate Saint Stanislaus today (+ April 11, 1079), bishop and martyr, put to death by his own king, Boleslaus, for rebuking the monarch’s ‘immoral life’. The details are rather obscure and disputed, but the Bishop excommunicated the King, which weakened him politically, and so the King accused Stanislaus of treason, sending soldiers to kill[…]
The fifty days between Easter and Pentecost are devoted to meditation on the mystery of the resurrection, which is the foundation of Christianity. Just how much that is so came home to me when I was called upon recently to give an address on the faith of the apostolic Church. To begin with, I realized[…]
Pope Francis has just released another Apostolic Exhortation, Gaudete et Exultate, which may be translated as ‘Rejoice and Be Glad’, from Matthew 5:12, a ‘call to holiness’ in today’s world. I will read the document over, and have a few words to say soon enough. LifeSite News claims that the Holy Father states that immigration[…]
So, what of hell? As you may have heard, and on which I wrote a few days ago, Pope Francis has allegedly (through the perhaps hazy recollection of Eugenio Scalfari after an untranscribed interview) denied that souls spend an eternity in ‘hell’, but are rather annihilated, cast into oblivion and cease to exist. We know[…]
On the note of suffering, even in the midst of this Easter joy, which in this vale of tears is still mingled with sorrow, at times most poignant and tragic: Last night, a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos, a junior hockey team from northern Saskatchewan, was T-boned by a tractor-trailer, killing 14, and injuring many[…]
