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
A blessed and joyous Thanksgiving to all our readers, a greeting which we would have offered earlier, but some technical glitches got in the way. Today is also the memorial of Saint Callixtus, who seems to have lived a rather dissolute and rebellious life in youth, but to have undergone a deep conversion at some[…]
When the blackface scandal first broke, CTV political commentator Don Martin said that Justin Trudeau told him as a backbench MP that he would never run as PM because he had too many secrets. Somewhere along the line that changed, though many Canadian voters still sense they don’t know the half of it. Nor do[…]
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, whose life spanned most of the nineteenth century—1801-90—was and remains a fascinating character. Much of his charm is found in his remarkable talent for friendship, and his great influence on both Protestants and Catholics arose from his ability to collect around him talented men who influenced his thinking, and vice versa. It’s[…]
In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear. (Saint Therese of Lisieux)
Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age (Pope Saint John XXIII)
Faith is an act of the intellect, assenting to the divine truth, by command of the will, moved by God through grace (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
Concerning the other night’s ‘debate’, allow me to offer the following enthymeme, a sort of summarized syllogism described by Aristotle: When a society loses faith, it loses reason. When we lose reason, we lose manners. When we lose manners, we lost courtesy, And when we lose courtesy, we become a herd of braying asses. Evidence[…]
We have two saints on the universal calendar today, and one blessed yet to be put thereon, who will be canonized this Sunday. In historical order, the first is Saint Denis, patron of Paris, her first bishop, and of France. He was likely martyred in the mid-third century in the Decian persecution, as the legend[…]
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe (Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, +1890)
Today marks the beginning of two synods, the one on the ‘Amazon’, with its controversial working document, and the one in Germany, with perhaps its even more controversial agenda: Married priests; ‘natural revelation’ given to indigenous peoples; LGBTQ inclusion; the morality of sexual expression outside of traditional marriage; female ‘ordination’, that is, to the diaconate;[…]
