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
We celebrate today the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, an ancient title of the Virgin, which was formally instituted into the Holy Mass and the Litany of Loreto by Paul VI during the Second Vatican Council, with a subsequent official votive Mass in 1975. Pope Francis, through Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation[…]
Be strong, For those with little faith. Be love, For those who have never felt it. Be patient, For those who always hurry. Be what you ask God, To harmonize the world, And help it be one.
Directed by John Michael McDonagh Written by John Michael McDonagh In the credits at the end of Calvary (2014), interspersed among the endless lists of names, are still shots of sites significant for the story line: a booth in the town pub, a table in a café, a split rock, the beach—but now they are empty because[…]
May 18th would have been Pope Saint John Paul II’s 98th birthday, which would be old even for the oldest of Popes. Benedict, the XVIth of that title, turned 91 on April 16th, and Leo XIII reigned until the venerable age of 93, making him the oldest Pope in history. I am sure John Paul[…]
I neglected yesterday to mention yesterday two May 16 saints, and my conscience moves me to offer them to our readers, so that we may bring them to mind seek their intercession: The first is the Polish Jesuit and martyr, Andrew Bobola (+1630) who working amongst Protestants and the Orthodox in Lithuania brought untold numbers[…]
Tom Wolfe died a couple of days ago, on May 14th, one of the originators of what came to be called the ‘new journalism’ in the heady sixties, a flowing, stream-of-consciousness form of writing, vividly descriptive and introspective, with essays such as the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and the Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. But he[…]
Today is the feast of Saint Matthias, the one chosen, as recounted in the first chapter of Acts, to replace Judas Iscariot, who betrayed the Christ, and ‘went to his own place’. All that is known for certain of this new-twelfth Apostle is that when the choice came down to two, between him and Joseph[…]
A blessed feast of the Ascension to all our readers, when Christ ascended body and soul back to the Father, whence He was sent, to that Trinitarian life that is His by nature. The Ascension was (and is in most of the rest of the Church) celebrated on Thursday of the sixth week of Easter,[…]
On April 18, 2005, in a homily for the Mass ‘pro eligendo Romano Pontifice’, for electing the (next) Roman Pontiff (at which he himself would be elected as Benedict XVI) Josef Cardinal Ratzinger, Dean of the College of Cardinals, warned against what he presciently described as the ‘dictatorship of relativism’, a phrase that has echoed[…]
“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.” 2 Timothy[…]
