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
A blessed feast of the Archangels to all our readers! Father Scott’s article on the Saint Michael prayer points out that this used to be the feast only of the great defender of heaven, he ‘who is like God’, hence, Michaelmas. The other two angels were added in the revisions after Vatican II, Raphael, ‘the[…]
Be wary in signing deal with atheistic Communists, Confucius might have said, had he lived another millennia or so, only to see his nation descend into the bathos of Marxist ideology. I hope, against hope, that the Vatican knows what the Church is in for signing a concordat with China, not least in giving the[…]
Thomas Sterns Eliot (1888-1965) was born in St. Louis, Missouri and migrated to England at the age of 25. As did the American novelist Henry James, he became a British subject very much influenced by the European milieu of his adoption. As his biographer Peter Ackroyd points out, while a student at Harvard University studying[…]
One knows not what to say at times, as events spiral faster than one’s capacity to comment on them; even one’s reflection is superseded: Oh, you may reach a tentative conclusion, then someone says or does something even more outrageous, and you think, hmm, I should revise that. In the midst of the chaos, we must[…]
By now, avid sports fans throughout the Western world and anyone who follows the news regularly, will have heard of Serena Williams’s blow-up at this year’s US Open finals. Williams was competing against the seventh ranked player in the world, twenty-year old Naomi Osaka. Osaka in their only other meeting (earlier this year), had beaten[…]
A brief note on this Sunday, on which I normally do not write, but make the occasional exception: For today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, more commonly ‘Padre Pio’, a saint who worked miracles of the most astounding variety, reading souls and hearts, and was in touch with[…]
On October 17, Canada will begin a new era of decadence. From that day on, cannabis – aka marijuana and pot – will be legal. And it’s all happening without public objection or even complaint. And without Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government bothering to make a compelling case for why it is legalizing a drug with[…]
Saint Matthew, the writer of the first Gospel, represents all those ‘called’ from sin, to the highest of virtues. We know little of his life, only that he was a ‘tax collector’, a loathed profession, squeezing out the hard-earned coins from his fellow Jews to enrich the already rich, such as Herod, which may sound[…]
When I was a child, I thought like a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things… These words of Saint Paul haunt me, for I still enjoy a number of ‘childish’ things, which may in one sense be defined as ‘mentally numbing’ for an adult, like watching Teletubbies or Sesame[…]
In my high school years, I became very active on a small, obscure social media website by the name of Tumblr. For anyone who might be unfamiliar, Tumblr is a blogging website which, in recent years, has garnered a reputation for being aggressively feminist and aggressively pro-LGBTQ+. And while this is, admittedly, an accurate description[…]
