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
Back in June of this year, I wrote a piece on the travails of Trinity Western University, and how they had been refused accreditation for a law degree based on their ‘covenant policy’, to which all students must agree, that they will refrain from sexual activity except that within a lawful marriage (that is, between[…]
A blessed memorial of the Queenship of Mary, a feast formally instituted by Pope Pius XII on October 11, 1954, in his encyclical Ad Coeli Reginam, four years after his own proclamation (Munifecentissimus Deus, Nov. 1, 1950) of the Assumption of Mary into heaven, body and soul, and one hundred years after his predecssor’s, Pius[…]
At the climax of Luke’s passion narrative, we see Jesus hanging between two criminals. One of the criminals mocks Jesus, but the other responds, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man[…]
We should pray today to Pope Saint Pius X (1835-1914) for all the woes we are currently facing in the Church. He too was Pope during the first years of a new century, filled with its own travails, not least the rise of modernism in theology, what Pius called the ‘synthesis of all heresies’, undermining[…]
Today is the memorial of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1190 – 1153), named after the ‘clear valley’ in which he helped establish a Cistercian monastery, itself named after the Citeaux monastery, near Dijon in France, where, in 1098, Robert of Molesme and Stephen Harding set up their own community to live more strictly the sixth-century[…]
In 2014 there was an incident in Colorado that would jolt the sensibilities of many older Americans. At one school district, students organized to protest a proposal to increase in the curriculum a patriotic awareness of American history (a recent survey indicates 40% of the public could not name one of the five civil rights[…]
Peruse a courageous essay just published in First Things, by an self-confessed homosexual, who struggles to maintain his chastity, and why men like him should not be ordained priests. The author claims, as have many others quite plausibly, that the current crisis in the Church has been caused by ordaining men of deep-seated homosexual, not[…]
I had this romantic notion on the pilgrimage of sailing away from my native land, watching the ‘white cliffs of Dover’ recede into the distance, so planned to catch the ferry between the mediaeval port town on the south coast of England and the French port-town of Calais. After leaving Canterbury on the earliest train,[…]
In light of the apparent scandals washing over the Church, readers should peruse and ponder this critical assessment of the recent Pennsylvania Report, which seems, from the objective analysis of Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic Civil Rights League, to be a biased and even malicious piece of work. Yet many Catholics are jumping on[…]
At the climax of Luke’s passion narrative, we see Jesus hanging between two criminals. One of the criminals mocks Jesus, but the other responds, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man[…]
