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 propos of nothing, something grabbed my attention the other night, causing me to revisit a phenomenon that has long since disappeared from the public radar. It was one of those public service documentaries, the sort we haven’t seen in decades. Titled Perversion for Profit and made in 1965, it appeared on TCM. All about[…]
I come from the Holy Lands of Ontario. These are the small towns in which the Irish settled over the 19th century, and built imposing Catholic churches that became a centrepiece for the community. The phrase “the Holy Lands of Ontario” was coined by Edward Jackman. O. P., in an essay in the 1988 collection[…]
Is it the canary in the coal-mine, or the bull in an economic china shop? The closure of the Oshawa GM manufacturing plant – which has been making cars since just after the Second World War in 1953 – will put nearly 3000 people out of high-paying work, all them soon to be pounding the[…]
A blessed and joyous solemnity of Christ the King to all our readers, a feast first put in the calendar in 1925 by Pope Pius XI. The pontiff had first issued the encyclical Ubi Arcani Dei Consilio – literally, ‘when the counsel of God was hidden’ – in 1922 in the aftermath of the insane carnage[…]
As we approach the end of the liturgical year, the readings at Mass once again turn to the end of this world and the second coming of Christ. Jesus says, “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be[…]
The biblical texts used at Mass towards the end of the liturgical year are certainly dramatic—with stars falling from heaven and the like—and, it must be said, confusing. Their obscurity has produced a myriad of interpretations, most notably among those people who like to predict the end of the world (which seems to be always[…]
Naheed Nenshi is upset. The long-time Calgary mayor is exercised over their lost Olympic bid, or should I say, the bid that never was, with the people voting overwhelmingly against it in a plebiscite, and the city council wisely following suit. Mr. Nenshi apparently expected the cash cow that goes by the nebulous name of[…]
When once a certain class of people has been placed by temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. —Simone Weil To the great sweeps of history, there is always a witness with eyes and a heart committed to the truth,[…]
Malibu is burning, and we may be inclined to see some sort of divine sign in the conflagration, not least in the loss of the ironically-named razed city of ‘Paradise’. We should pray for the dead, the wounded, the sorrowing. Is God saying something here? True, there are no ‘accidents’ in God’s providence, for the[…]
My most memorable Remembrance Day experience took place eight years ago. It was my first semester out of Canada (I think it’s difficult to be truly patriotic until one has lived in another country, but I digress), which was exciting but also challenging in many ways. One of the most difficult aspects was that I[…]
