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
The Synod on Youth has closed, after approving the final document in accord with the new rules on Episcopal Synods promulgated by Pope Francis just last month, Episcopalis communio, which updated, and strengthened the authority of these meetings of bishops, first approved by Pope Paul VI during the closing days of the Second Vatican Council.[…]
I read recently that Pope John Paul II had a vision of Europe being taken over by Islam, the continent’s once-vibrant Christianity gone silent and dark, entombed and cobwebbed. With whatever grain of salt one takes such stories (such as another one I heard years ago, that ‘Quebec would save North America’, alas) the prophecy[…]
Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Schola is providing music for the 5:15 p.m. Mass on Sunday, November 4th, at the Pembroke Cathedral (188 Renfrew Street). We will sing selections from J.S. Bach, Palestrina, Bruckner and Mozart, all in the setting of the Holy Sacrifice. Please do plan to join us if you are able. All[…]
As the United States mid-term elections loom, peruse Carl Sundell’s take on Robert Bork, who went through his own gruelling Kavanaugh-esdque process three decades ago, after being nominated to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan in what seem like the far more innocent days of 1987. Unlike Kavanaugh, whose bid recently survived a similar process,[…]
Robert Heron Bork (1927 –2012) was a judge and law professor who was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court in 1987. Reagan’s motive for nominating Bork was clear-cut. Bork was an originalist (one who is loyal to the original text of the Constitution) and he opposed the Court’s modern tendency to enact[…]
The renowned priest, author and spiritual director Father Jacques Philippe is offering a three-evening retreat in Ottawa, sponsored by Catholic Christian Outreach, on October 30, 31 and November 1st, all beginning at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 30th, 2018 – 7 PM Sacré-Coeur Parish (591 Cumberland St) La Parole de Dieu dans Notre Vie: Lectio Divina[…]
I just finished reading this comprehensive and timely essay in First Things by Michael Hanby, an associate professor of religion and philosophy of science at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University of America, very a propos on this day dedicated to same Pontiff. Therein, the[…]
Today we commemorate Pope Saint John Paul II, for this day chosen as his ‘feast’ marks the 40 anniversary of his coronation as the 264th successor of Saint Peter as the Vicar of Christ, and the tender age of 58 (tender for a Pope); he would go on to have the second-longest serving Pope in[…]
Paula Adamick has a take on a powerful new book by Jennifer Roback Morse, ‘The Sexual State’, outlining the government’s role in aiding, abetting and outright fostering the revolution of our morals and customs in the sexual and marital sphere, and almost all for the worse. The transvaluation of all values, as Nietzsche put it,[…]
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” ― Leo Tolstoy If you peruse the Showbiz section of any daily newspaper, you’ll invariably find an item about yet another celebrity coping with the trauma of his or her failed marriage or partnership while embarking on the quest for love yet[…]
