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
I’m glad to read this morning that there are still limits to our societal insanity, with the intended forced abortion of a Nigerian woman in Britain with ‘learning disabilities’ now overturned by an appeal court, whose judges will provide their reasons ‘shortly’. Yet, as Pope Saint Paul VI warned in Humanae Vitae, if our society[…]
All ate and were filled. What was left over was gathered up, twelve baskets of broken pieces (Lk. 9:17).As we celebrate the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ or Corpus Christi as it is traditionally known, we celebrate the Church’s greatest treasure, the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist. The Gospel of the[…]
The tide may be turning, just a little, on the education front, as Indianapolis Archbishop Charles Thompson stripped a Catholic school of its Catholic title – as is his prerogative and duty in Canon Law – when one of the teachers ‘married’ his same –sex partner. Brebéuf Jesuit Preparatory School – alas, named after one[…]
Today we commemorate Saint Thomas More, husband, father, lawyer, sometime chancellor of England, martyred in 1535 along with his compatriot Saint John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester and cardinal of the Church, who is remembered today also. In fact, although More’s head went under the headsman’s axe on July 6, it was Fisher who was put[…]
Although I try not to dwell on it overmuch, in fact I ignore it as much as I might, this is ‘Gay Pride’ month, which used to be a scant week-long event, but one supposes that was not enough time to get the point across. Now, it seems, to paraphrase the country song, it’s always[…]
I might have re-named it, had I bought the town of Hell, Michigan, as did ‘YouTuber’ Elijah Daniel, of whom I had never heard, but apparently, being a star on the Google-owned media platform can provide one with a sizeable income, enough to buy a whole five-acre village, the asking price of which was $900,000[…]
As Canadians celebrate ‘Gay Pride’ across this fair dominion, I thought a bit of clarity on what it really is we are being asked to celebrate might be in order. In light of Saint Thomas’ notion of ‘friendship’, we should be clear to distinguish what we might term homo-philia, chaste same-sex friendship, from homo-eros, sexual[…]
Whether charity is a type of friendship? (II-II q. 23, a. 1, resp.) According to the Philosopher (Ethic. viii, 2,3) not every love has the character of friendship, but that love which is together with benevolence, when, to wit, we love someone so as to wish good to him. If, however, we do not wish good to what we love,[…]
Once again, a blessed solemnity of the Trinity, and, on a more secular level, although in a connected way, a happy Fathers’ Day to all those who exercise that charism of paternity, whether biological or spiritual, which should include all men. All fatherhood should be in the image of God the Father, the source and[…]
A blessed solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, the greatest and most fundamental mystery of our Faith, signifying Who God is in His very Self, His interior Being. I AM WHO AM. As I looked back at what I had written on this feast two years ago, I noticed I had commented on a phrase[…]
