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 feast of the Apostles Philip and James, the latter called ‘the Lesser’, to distinguish him from James ‘the Greater’, the writer of the Epistle (which here, likely means just ‘older’), whose feast is on July 25th. Philip is the one who asks a number of leading questions in the Gospels, such as ‘how[…]
REVIEW by Reverend Dr. Paul James Dunn: Fatima – story of hope and love — by Colin Ian Jeffery ISBN: 9781985631670 Paperback £4.17 Amazon or any good bookshop (to find the book on Amazon type Colin Ian Jeffery. On the 13 May, 1917, the Blessed Virgin Mary visited three shepherd children tending sheep near the[…]
In his 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens, Pope John Paul II defined work as ‘any activity of man’, contrary to our modern notion, so immersed in what we might call ‘productive’ labour. Yet, as the Pope rightly sees it, the primary aspect of work is subjective, perfecting the one who is doing the work, and only secondarily[…]
(A reprise of an article I published last year on this memorial of the great Saint Joseph…) Saint Joseph has two ‘feast’ days in the universal Church, neither of which is technically a ‘feast’. The first, on March 19th, is his principal day, celebrated as a full solemnity, usually in Lent (unless bumped into Easter[…]
Although they knew God they did not honour him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanging the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.[…]
Paula Adamick’s article on the socialist and anti-Christian philosophy behind ‘Earth Day‘, celebrated, if such be the term, on the birthday of Lenin himself, as well as her take on the whole environmentalist agenda, should give one deep food for thought. Yes we must treat our world with care and foresight, but always remember that[…]
Our Lady of Good Counsel is a fine title of Mary, one which dates back indirectly to the 5th century, when Pope Sixtus III provided material and spiritual aid to a church dedicated to Our Lady in the Italian town of Genazzano, whose citizens had contributed significantly to the recently-finished magnificent basilica Santa Maria Maggiore[…]
Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001) was a British analytic philosopher who early in life met and was deeply influenced by the great Austrian logician and linguist Ludwig Wittgenstein. Her most original contribution to philosophy is the monograph Intention, a study of reason as applied to human actions. The American analytic philosopher Donald Davidson described Intention as “the[…]
We should pray for the victims of the van attack in Toronto yesterday, the ten who have died, the others still in hospital in critical condition, and, yes, the perpetrator, who perhaps needs prayers most of all. Not much is known of him; a motive has so far not been disclosed, and it is always[…]
A very joyful Fourth Sunday of Easter to all our readers, Good Shepherd Sunday, dedicated to prayer for vocations, especially to the priesthood, that men may follow Christ, and ‘lay down their life for the sheep’, who are all too often scattered and without a shepherd, or led by shepherds who lead them astray. We[…]
