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
Welcome to the land of now-legal marijuana, for on this Wednesday, Canada, in her continuing cultural descent under Trudeau, becomes the second sovereign nation to legalize the green weed (Uruguay recently beat us to the punch). I have an article in Crisis this morning on the moral difference between alcoholic beverages, permitted in our Catholic[…]
We celebrate a veritable panoply of saints today: In Canada, we have the memorial of Saint Marguerite D’Youville (+1771), who married young to a dissolute man, Francois D’Youville, a bootlegger who sold liquor to the Natives, and would disappear for long periods. He did not live long, but they did have six children together, before[…]
On this half-way mark in the month of October we celebrate the great mystic and doctor of the Church, Teresa of Avila (+1582) who, along with her male contemporary Saint John of the Cross, helped to reform the ancient Carmelite Order, like a female Elijah, albeit with more refined, New Covenant sensibilities (regardless of how[…]
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk, theologian, poet, mystic, and the author of more than seventy books. Having lost both parents by the time he was fourteen, his youth from then on was ill directed and sometimes chaotic. He declared himself an agnostic in his late teen years and proudly declared, “I believe in[…]
The weather and the economy are both volatile, of late, with the aptly-named Hurricane Michael (‘who is like God’) smashing into the Florida panhandle, the largest storm in a half-century, or a century, depending on whom you read. Our capacity to measure such things as a storm’s ‘strength’ has, I am sure, become more accurate over[…]
I hope that all our readers had a delightful Thanksgiving weekend, a secular holiday, one may think, but as Christians we are called to ‘baptize’ the culture, to turn what could be an excuse simply to ‘manducare, bibere et epulare’, to paraphrase Saint Paul, ‘eat, drink and be merry’, into something spiritual and good. Just[…]
A blessed and joyous Thanksgiving to all our readers! As Saint Paul admonishes us through his letter to Thessalonians, “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus…” And as Chesterton would put it, the secret to life is having gratitude even for the smallest good, for there is[…]
And so, following upon my comments yesterday on the mask slipping off the face of evil, it begins: A trio of physicians – oh, why not give their names so we can pray for these misguided souls – Carey DeMichelis, Randi Zlotnik Shaul and Adam Rapoport – all of them, ironically employed at Sick Kids’ Hospital[…]
On a late winter’s evening, my mother left her body like a discarded nightgown on an unmade bed. I was sitting by the window when I received the news of her death and as I looked out into the inner garden, I realized that it was she who had first taught me the importance of[…]
Tallis Choir of Toronto presents: William Byrd: Loyal Subject & Subversive Saturday, October 13, 2018 at 7:30 pm St. Patrick’s Church, 141 McCaul Street (north of Dundas, near St. Patrick Station) Toronto, ON M5T 1W3; 416-598-3269 Students, $10 (at door only); seniors, $25; general admission, $30 Information or tickets: info@tallischoir.com; http://tallischoir.com/ticketing/; 416-286-9798 Hart House tickets:www.tickets.harthouse.ca;[…]
