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
When Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould publicly accused Justin Trudeau and his senior aides before a Commons Justice and Human Rights Committee in February of pressuring her to not criminally prosecute the Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin engineering firm for a host of corruption charges, Tory leader Andrew Scheer declared that the prime minister had lost the moral authority to govern[…]
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at day-break to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven[…]
A few musical gifts recommended by Pater Ignotus – who is himself musically quite gifted, we may add – for your Sunday enjoyment: https://youtu.be/HUbT7WLagRc
A blessed Sunday to all our readers, the Sixteenth in Ordinary Time, or the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost in the usus antiquior. Either way, we celebrate the resurrection, which gives us joy and hope. In that light we should read Paul Suski’s dire – but still hopeful – on Europe, and Poland in particular. Pope[…]
You are young, and the Pope is old…But the Pope still fully identifies with your hopes and aspirations. Although I have lived through much darkness, under harsh totalitarian regimes, I have seen enough evidence to be unshakeably convinced that no difficulty, no fear is so great that it can completely suffocate the hope that springs[…]
On July 13 1917 the three Portuguese children, Lucy, Francisco and Jacinta, heard from Virgin Mary “if people do not cease offending God, a worse (war) will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by[…]
I was not sure we should mention the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landings, fraught as they are with so-called conspiracy theories. Whatever one thinks of the latter group, one must admit that there are various unanswered, or not fully answered, questions about the moon landings, a few of which I will raise. The commonly[…]
I’ve been gone for a couple of days, on pilgrimage to Martyrs’ Shrine, in Midland, Ontario, of which I have written a number of times before, commemorating the eight Jesuits who were put to death in odium fidei by the Iroquois back in the mid-seventeenth century. The site of Saint-Ignace, where Saints Jean de Brebeuf[…]
If we wish to help our neighbour, we must reserve for ourselves neither place, nor hour, nor time. (Saint Philip Neri, +1595)
Saint Bonaventure, whom we celebrate today, the day of his death in 1274 – a few months after his contemporary, Saint Thomas Aquinas. Both have been proclaimed Doctors of the Church – an elite company, with but 36 members – and both wrote ‘Summas’, or compendia, of theology, even if, for various reasons, it was[…]
