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
Well, at the risk of some level of sensationalism, it seems the persecution has begun, on the fringes at least. The Liberals under Justin Trudeau and Employment Minister Patty Hajdu are now requiring that institutions applying for a Summer Job funding grant from the federal government (which many Catholic and Christian groups do) must check[…]
In his Confessions, the brilliant St. Augustine tells his reader that he knows quite well what time is, until someone asks him to define it. When pressed to give a definition, St. Augustine finds himself unable to think of the words which will adequately express the nature of time. The business of forming good definitions,[…]
On his visit to our college a few years ago, the Jesuit scholar Father Koterski mentioned a book that he described as the ‘most influential he has ever read’, his fellow Jesuit’s Father Paul Quay’s “The Mystery Hidden for Ages in God”. Upon his effusive recommendation, I made a resolve to read the book, and[…]
The current brouhaha over yet another antic by our perpetually jejune Prime Minister concerns a photo of him and his brother, Alexandre, (of whom I know rather little) smiling for the camera in some Christmas moment (a day on which by some coincidence they were both born), posing in what some Conservatives are describing as[…]
Saint John Nepomucene (+1393) is by tradition, or some say by legend (but the two overlap, do they not, for every legend has its roots in a tradition) is the first and most famous martyr of the seal of the confessional. A confessor to the queen, he refused to divulge her sins to the king,[…]
The Elites serve Democracy without the People. (George Walden, The New Elites) Yes, it’s that time of year when the rich and famous head to the Swiss mountain village of Davos and its World Economic Forum to discuss the big issues of the day and attempt to put the world to rights for fun and[…]
Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) was a literary critic and co-founder with Paul Elmer More of an early 20th century movement called the New Humanism. Babbitt was hugely influential in shaping the conservative values of T.S. Eliot, Russell Kirk, and many others. Though very popular for a time, he was the favorite target of many liberals. Babbitt’s[…]
A panel of health-care providers, as the term now has it, on the radio other day was discussing euthanasia, or, again as the language goes, medical assistance in dying. It seems even the least squeamish and scrupulous of physicians, who have suppressed the ‘do no harm’ clause in the Hippocratic oath almost to insignificance, have[…]
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The memorial of the Holy Name of Jesus dates back to the early modern period, just after the Middle Ages, a devotion popularized, along with that of the Sacred Heart, in the 14th century by saints such as Bernardine of Siena (+1444). The power of the holy name derives from the One who Whom it[…]
