You have heard, O Virgin, that you will conceive and bear a son; you have heard that it will not be by man but by the Holy Spirit. The angel awaits an answer; it is time for him to return to God who sent him. We too are waiting, O Lady, for your word of[…]
Month: December 2019
Mediocre Medicare, and It’s Only Getting Worse
As one of his numerous Christmas anti-gifts to Canadians – the Grinch who would just not stop taking – Justin Trudeau, amongst his other infamies, is the first Prime Minister to balloon the national debt over the one trillion-dollar mark – but he does stand on the shoulders of other spendthrifts, quite liberal and generous[…]
Two Popes and a New Bishop of Antigonish
Saint Anastasius I served as Pope for but a brief time, from November 27th, 399, to his death on this day, December 19th, 401, but was known by his contemporaries – Jerome, Augustine and others – for his holiness, his love of poverty, and his devotion to his office. He condemned the writings of Origen,[…]
If man, without being puffed up or boastful, has a right belief regarding created things and their divine Creator, who, having given them being, holds them all in his power, and if man perseveres in God’s love, and in obedience and gratitude to him, he will receive greater glory from him. It will be a[…]
A person’s a person, no matter how small (the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and Horton the Elephant)
Personhood and Abortion: A Historical Review in the Catholic Tradition
Introduction In 1973 the controversial Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in the United States. In that first year alone, about 700,000 abortions were performed in the country and over 60 million have been performed through 2018. About one in four women will have an abortion by age 45.[1] Since its legalization, abortion[…]
Adelaide, Netflix, Anathema Sit
Saint Adelaide, whose memorial was yesterday in that broad calendar of the blessed, was the first, and as far as I know only, Empress of the Holy Catholic Empire. As a young girl, in 947, she had been married to King Lothair II of Italy, who was likely poisoned. She ran for her life, escaping[…]
The divine nature and the nature of a servant were to be united in one person so that the Creator of time might be born in time, and he through whom all things were made might be brought forth in their midst. (Pope Saint Leo the Great, +461)
German and Paglian Scandal
What are we to say of the German bishop’s conference – now well traversed on its own path of ‘synodality’ – which just proclaimed homosexuality, by which we may presume they mean the sin of sodomy, to be ‘normal’, devoid of any objective sinfulness. There is not much to add, for the proclamation speaks for[…]
The Many Faces of Justin Trudeau
I just had to post this, at least for posterity’s sake. Poignant and evincing.