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
On October 17, Canada will begin a new era of decadence. From that day on, cannabis – aka marijuana and pot – will be legal. And it’s all happening without public objection or even complaint. And without Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government bothering to make a compelling case for why it is legalizing a drug with[…]
Saint Matthew, the writer of the first Gospel, represents all those ‘called’ from sin, to the highest of virtues. We know little of his life, only that he was a ‘tax collector’, a loathed profession, squeezing out the hard-earned coins from his fellow Jews to enrich the already rich, such as Herod, which may sound[…]
When I was a child, I thought like a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things… These words of Saint Paul haunt me, for I still enjoy a number of ‘childish’ things, which may in one sense be defined as ‘mentally numbing’ for an adult, like watching Teletubbies or Sesame[…]
In my high school years, I became very active on a small, obscure social media website by the name of Tumblr. For anyone who might be unfamiliar, Tumblr is a blogging website which, in recent years, has garnered a reputation for being aggressively feminist and aggressively pro-LGBTQ+. And while this is, admittedly, an accurate description[…]
Nero was given to fiddling while Rome burned, while we see what seems like a lot of muddling, as the Church faces perhaps her greatest existential crisis, and our own nation of Canada could be a rather dire economic apocalypse. As Father George Rutler opines in his inimitable way, it seems rather misplaced for the[…]
To be hidden in God, known only by Him is a great treasure, which today’s saint, the Franciscan Joseph of Cupertino, lived to the full. Amare nesciri, Saint Philip Neri would say, ‘love to be unknown’. With his father’s death while Joseph was still in utero, the Italian boy, whose hometown was on the ‘heel’ of[…]
We could use a few more men with the clear mind and soul of Robert Bellarmine (+1621), bishop, cardinal, doctor of the Church, Jesuit, back in the days when the Order was young and, shall we say, more united in the truth. Bellarmine was one of the most influential figures in what has unfortunately been[…]
I have always been an emotional communicant, to this my family and parish priest can attest. The communion this Eucharist establishes is, of course, communion with Christ and each other, even those already in the glory of heaven. Therefore, it establishes us as a single body, one body, in Christ. While we today, too often,[…]
Our Lady of Sorrows is a fitting memorial at this time in the Church’s history which, to put things in rather banal terms, is interesting, during which times, as the Chinese proverb has it, one is fortunate to live. At the very least, it makes things, well, interesting. One is not sure what to make[…]
Saint John Chrysostom (+407), an ascetic and contemplative monk who wanted only to retreat from the turmoil of life in the Eastern empire, was chosen first as a priest in Antioch, where he became renowned for his eloquent yet forthright and clear preaching (hence, his ‘surname’, Chrysostom, ‘golden mouth’). In 397, without his knowledge or[…]
