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 continuing merrie Christmas to all our readers, as we celebrate all these twelve days, right up to the Epiphany and the Baptism of our Lord. So keep those lights and candles burning, the decorations up! Christmas has just begun! Today is the memorial of Saint Thomas a Becket, the glorious bishop of Canterbury[…]
As a New Year approaches, may we still keep our sights on the true meaning and significance of Christmas, that is, the Incarnation. May we also not get lost in the perils of consumerism and economic materialism. This is something I emphasized a couple of years ago in a Christmas piece for Catholic Insight. Furthermore,[…]
In a letter of 11 December 1944 C. S. Lewis mentions five “shining examples of human holiness”. Along with Saint Francis, George Herbert, George MacDonald, “and even burly old Dr. Johnson” we find John Bunyan. Lewis admired John Bunyan, whose The Pilgrim’s Progress Lewis knew wel1.[2] He spent part of the Christmas holiday of 1929[…]
Again and again the beauty of this Gospel touches our hearts: a beauty that is the splendour of truth. Again and again it astonishes us that God makes himself a child so that we may love him, so that we may dare to love him, and as a child trustingly lets himself be taken into[…]
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10) For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power[…]
As we draw close to Christmas, waiting in these days of darkness, it is profitable to reflect on the purpose of the Incarnation. An anecdote I heard once has it that someone spray-painted on a highway rock-face, Jesus saves!, below which someone attempting humour added, ‘From what?’. From what, indeed. The short answer is, from sin,[…]
It is oft good – if still disheartening – to read of one’s deepest fears realized, for it signifies that one’s thoughts are tending in the right direction, even if those same thoughts lead to a dark place. It is thus that I, with some dismay, read the musings of one Professor Todd May of Clemson[…]
At the World Climate Conference in Katowice, Poland, which wrapped up on December 15th, 196 countries – well, representatives from said countries, including our own ‘climate specialist’ Catherine McKenna – have enthusiastically endorsed battling climate change, that it is real, and that we must reduce carbon emissions by 30%, or is it 50%? Activists are[…]
The eighth “chapter” of the Rocky series, Creed II, was released on November 21. Continuing in the tradition of the previous seven chapters of the Rocky Saga, Creed II exploits the underdog archetype. The protagonist, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan), although recently crowned heavyweight boxing champion of the world, is not prepared to beat a[…]
You may have heard of CRISPR babies, which may phonically sound rather macabre, but the acronym stands for the rather prosaic Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats, a type of genetic editing first developed in Japan in 1987 by Yoshizume Ishino at Osaka University, working on the ubiquitous e.coli bacteria, and now very much in vogue[…]
