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
We should all feel some empathy at the drowning of the father and his 23-month daughter in the Rio Grande. I have not for one seen the photograph of them face down in the murky water, but it is apparently making its appointed rounds, evoking worldwide ‘condemnation’. The Holy Father has his own take: The[…]
Today, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, is the World Day of Prayer for Priests, instituted by Pope Saint John Paul II in 2002, a reminder that Christ came in true human nature, with a human body, flesh and ‘heart’, and all that means, the emotions and affections proper to being a man. Christ could[…]
As part of the humanity of the Incarnate Word, the Sacred Heart is a creature. Should, then, Jesus’s Sacred Heart be accorded the adoration of latria which is reserved for God alone? The answer is, yes. And this adoration involves no idolatry whatsoever. In his profound and beautiful encyclical, Haurietis aquas (published in 1956), Pope[…]
