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
His mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation (Lk 1:4). Once again on this third Sunday of Advent we encounter the figure of John the Baptist, “the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight His paths.’” In the Liturgy of Advent John bears[…]
What sad, pinched lives the climate zealots must live, every emission of carbon and its derivatives a cause of sorrow, guilt, regret. You may recall the factoid I mentioned recently, courtesy of the CBC morning show, that each meal we consume equals a carbon-loaded drive to the next town over; depending on where you live,[…]
On a rather chilly morning on a hillside outside what is now Mexico City, in the year of our Lord 1531, while the Protestant ‘Reformation’ was wreaking spiritual and societal havoc across the Atlantic in Europe – Thomas More and John Fisher were less than four years from the chopping block – the Virgin Mary appeared –[…]
Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad, is the story of the war waged by Greece against the city of Troy. Unable to vanquish the Trojans on the battlefield, the Greeks came up with a ploy. They built a gigantic wooden horse, filled its belly with soldiers, left it on the beach and boarded their ships, pretending[…]
I don’t know about you, but I’m already tired of ‘Christmas’. Of course, I am not referring to the real Christmas—the birth of Jesus—but what goes by the name of Christmas in the stores and on television and the internet. I’ve had my fill of Rudolf and Frosty, and even of Santa Claus coming to[…]
There are two primary things that totalitarian regimes seek to control, and whose take-over are themselves a sign of creeping totalitarianism in any society: The first is education, and the younger they get access to our minds, the better. The second is the media, newspapers and radio, and, now the vast ethereal space known as[…]
If there is one thing universal in inductive research, it is doubt. So read the textbook, through which I was first introduced to the statistical method, by one R. Parker-Bausell, which I still use in my own teaching. We are never done, finished, complete in science, for there is always more to learn, and every[…]
One is never sure what to believe from the endless avalanche of stories from the main-stream media. A few weeks ago the migrant caravan was described like something out of an apocalyptic dystopia – or to go back in time, perhaps an image from Exodus – thousands of men, women and children, trudging over a[…]
Everyone here knows that Advent is the season of waiting. As the readings for the first Sunday indicate, the fundamental characteristic of this time in the Church year is an expression of our longing for the second coming of Christ; and we also, in imagination, place ourselves in the period of preparation for the birth[…]
Of all the sins, Saint Thomas says (II-II.153.5) that lust perverts the reason the most, its intensity – meant to bond together a man and a woman in holy matrimony, so they will persevere through the purgatory that is raising children and putting up with each other’s faults – when misused leads to grave disorders,[…]
