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 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[…]
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A note to all our readers: “Unplanned” – based on the powerful and moving true story of the conversion of former Planned Parenthood employee Abby Johnson – is screening in select theatres across Canada for ONE week: July 12-18th. Please fill a car with friends and family and see this film! As they become available,[…]
Let us die, then, and enter into the darkness, silencing our anxieties, our passions and all the fantasies of our imagination. Let us pass over with the crucified Christ from this world to the Father, so that, when the Father has shown himself to us, we can say with Philip: It is enough. (Saint Bonaventure, +1274)
