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
I hesitate even to draw attention to it, but Toronto’s 38th annual (really?) ‘Gay Pride’ parade (with other similar events in other cities) has come and gone, with all the mess to clean up. To his credit, Doug Ford did not attend, a good sign and a rather counter-cultural stance that bodes some hope for[…]
Cultural change generally moves slowly, and when we first take notice, we sometimes find that its roots are already firmly in place. I clearly recall my reflecting upon the final scene of Quentin Tarantino’s much praised and somewhat reviled Kill Bill when I first saw it in the summer of 2006. The end depicts how[…]
Paula Adamick pulls no punches in her assessment of the current state of Canada, and whether we can even still call this conglomeration in any real sense a ‘nation’. For what binds a people together? Tim Horton’s and hockey, loons and lakes, maple trees and, now, marijuana? A Trudeaupian vague sense of shared ‘values’, never[…]
Citing “the public interest in the administration of justice”, the law society claims that the personal views and preferences of an “overwhelming majority” of lawyers must be imposed on a private Christian school. This is majority coercion directed against a minority. The law society violates the rule of law and the Charter and attacks the[…]
Today, on the first official day of summer, we celebrate two martyrs, John Cardinal Fisher and Thomas More, as well as a bishop, Paulinus of Nola, a poet, senator, and former married man, who, after his wife’s death, became a priest, and was elevated to oversee the diocese of Bordeaux in southern France in the[…]
This is the first day of summer, the longest day of the year (in the northern hemisphere), solstice marking the Earth’s midway point in its 186 million mile journey around the Sun, in whose light we may rejoice. It is also the memorial of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (+ 1591), a Jesuit scholastic who died at[…]
Ontario is the most populous of Canada’s ten provinces, with about 13.5 million souls, accounting for nearly 40 percent of the population of the country, most of whom live within a one or two hour drive from the border with the United States. The province has the nation’s capital, Ottawa, as well as its largest[…]
A brief word on Saint Romuauld (+June 19, 1025/27), before today ends, a tenth-century monk, who founded the strict Camaldolese Order, named after the benefactor, Maldoli, who first donated the land (campos, or field) to them. After a dissolute youth (according to the perhaps even stricter Peter Damien, who wrote his biography fifteen years after[…]
Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001) was early in life an agnostic American philosopher of Jewish descent (he referred to himself as a pagan) who was received into the Catholic Church at the age of 96, two years before his death. Adler’s education was eclectic, having achieved a doctorate in psychology from Columbia University (where he taught[…]
A blessed Friday to all, as we continue this journey through June, and soon into summer. Spring should bring hope, and the promise of new life. But all is not rosy on the spiritual front, and I read with some dismay, although not much surprise, that the number of seminarians has dropped precipitously of late,[…]
