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
Has any one of you ever been a shepherd? or even seen one? Do shepherds exist in contemporary North America? Nevertheless, we know instinctively that when Jesus refers to himself as the good shepherd, he is expressing his loving concern for his “flock,” i.e., his followers. You might well ask, therefore, why he did not[…]
“To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.” ― Jean Vanier, Becoming Human “I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing[…]
These are evil days indeed for free speech. You may have read of the banning of various commentators and pundits, Milo Yiannopolous, Alex Jones, Laura Loomer, cast out for life from ‘social media’ – FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram – which is how most speech is communicated, at least in any broad, commercialized sense. However one understands[…]
Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977) was a Catholic convert, philosopher, and theologian whose deep thinking prepared him during his long life for fruitful meditations on death and eternity. Suffering for a number of years from heart failure, as the end approached his wife Alice reports that it took him only two weeks to write Jaws of[…]
Jean Vanier, the founder of L’Arche, has gone to his eternal reward, at the venerable age of 90. The son of soldier, veteran and former Governor-General George Vanier and his wife Pauline – both of them up for beatification for their holiness of life – Jean founded L’Arche on August 4, 1964 when he took[…]
Concerning the comments received on Overplaying the Heretical Hand, here is my clarification, for what it may be worth: The charge of heresy – a canonical and legal one – is not only serious, but, more to the point at hand, one that has to be indisputably proven, especially when a Pope is involved, preferably[…]
Just in case you thought Saint Thomas Aquinas was a solitary, ivory-tower academic, here are two thoughts for all of us to ponder, in a world where so many are lonely, even in the midst of crowds of people: There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Not only that,[…]
Anti-abortion ads removed from GRT buses – Complaint by women’s sexual health organization prompts region to pull ads” – Johanna Weidner, Waterloo Region Record, April 5, 2019 Where books are burned, in the end, people will also be burned -Heinrich Heine -1823 (German Jewish poet who predicted the future Holocaust) On May 10, 1933 Nazi[…]
Pope Francis begins his journey – I like to think of these as pilgrimages, as all our journeys ultimately should be – to Bulgaria today, and he has his work cut out for him. Like most nations in Europe, Bulgaria suffered and was carved up as a result of the two World Wars, fighting on[…]
Is Pope Francis a heretic? So claims the recent letter, signed by various theological luminaries of various stripes, including, to my surprise, the Dominican priest, Father Aidan Nichols, whose sharp mind, I would have thought, might have seen through the limitations of this radical claim. The thing about heresy, as a canonical crime, is that[…]
