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
“I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.” Exodus 20:5 A recent study by a major health insurance provider has found that the number of Americans diagnosed with severe depression has jumped by[…]
Today is a rarity in our liturgical calendar, as we celebrate no less than three saints, each of them optional memorials: In order of time, we have first Saint Bede the Venerable (+735), an English monk, who was sent to the monastery of Wearmouth as a young boy of seven as a puer oblatus, and[…]
The referendum vote in Ireland today, on the ‘right’ to abortion, is a turning point in our culture, for the Catholic nation symbolizes something beyond itself in the imagination of many. When the Republic of Ireland’s constitution was originally penned in 1937, they never thought of putting in a prohibition of abortion, since almost no[…]
Peruse Carl Sundell’s overview of the thought of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, known for his lucid and precise prose on a variety of theological, philosophical and historical topics, still relevant today. We could use more such clarity. And, alas, another purported, and controversial, statement from the Holy Father: It seems that during a meeting[…]
We celebrate today the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, an ancient title of the Virgin, which was formally instituted into the Holy Mass and the Litany of Loreto by Paul VI during the Second Vatican Council, with a subsequent official votive Mass in 1975. Pope Francis, through Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation[…]
Be strong, For those with little faith. Be love, For those who have never felt it. Be patient, For those who always hurry. Be what you ask God, To harmonize the world, And help it be one.
Directed by John Michael McDonagh Written by John Michael McDonagh In the credits at the end of Calvary (2014), interspersed among the endless lists of names, are still shots of sites significant for the story line: a booth in the town pub, a table in a café, a split rock, the beach—but now they are empty because[…]
May 18th would have been Pope Saint John Paul II’s 98th birthday, which would be old even for the oldest of Popes. Benedict, the XVIth of that title, turned 91 on April 16th, and Leo XIII reigned until the venerable age of 93, making him the oldest Pope in history. I am sure John Paul[…]
I neglected yesterday to mention yesterday two May 16 saints, and my conscience moves me to offer them to our readers, so that we may bring them to mind seek their intercession: The first is the Polish Jesuit and martyr, Andrew Bobola (+1630) who working amongst Protestants and the Orthodox in Lithuania brought untold numbers[…]
Tom Wolfe died a couple of days ago, on May 14th, one of the originators of what came to be called the ‘new journalism’ in the heady sixties, a flowing, stream-of-consciousness form of writing, vividly descriptive and introspective, with essays such as the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and the Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. But he[…]
