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
Saint Boniface, bishop and martyr, was hacked to death by a group of idol-worshippers on this day, June 5, 754. His life was one of tireless struggle to convert the Frisians, early inhabitants of Germania, steeped in paganism and idolatry. The famous story of his boldly chopping down the ‘Donar Oak’, which the pagan Frisians[…]
Hungarian John Lukacs (1924-2019) was born to a Catholic father and a Jewish mother. He studied history at the University of Budapest and fled to the United States in 1946 when it was evident that the Communist takeover of Hungary was imminent. Self described as a “reactionary conservative,” Lukacs’ typically insightful prose style is well[…]
On April 10th, I got in the car with my sister and drove to Ottawa for a private screening of “Unplanned”. I had read Abby Johnson’s book of the same title, and I wanted to see how her remarkable transformation from Planned Parenthood director to pro-life advocate played out as a movie. I settled into[…]
The memorial of Charles Llwanga and his companion martyrs, put to death in Uganda between 1885 and 1887, has complex undertones: the conquest of Africa in the midst of the ‘scramble’ by various European powers; the struggle for converts amongst Catholicism, Anglicanism and Islam; and the interior intrigues for power within the tribal hegemony of[…]
Saint Justin, who is called the ‘martyr’, was born around the time the last Apostle, John, departed this life for heaven. Justin was not raised in the Catholic faith – few were in those incipient days – but was rather a pagan convert to Christianity. He first investigated the various philosophies of the age, Platonism,[…]
CONCLUSION OF THE MARIAN MONTH HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II 31 May 1979 “And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her from the Lord” (Lk 1:45). 1: With this greeting, the elderly Elizabeth exalts her young kinswoman Mary, who has come, humble and[…]
How are Catholic couples meant to interpret Amoris Laetitia? When already a fog of confusion surrounds the question of whether or not the divorced and remarried may receive Holy Communion, certain statements in Amoris Laetitia add to the confusion, rather than ministering to Catholic couples with tool of clarity. Is it right for Catholics to[…]
A blessed feast of the Visitation, one that goes back to the Middle Ages, when it was originally celebrated on the octave after the Birth of Saint John the Baptist, July 2nd. The feast of the Messiah’s precursor is now la Fete Nationale in Quebec, whose people can now scarcely recall their Catholic roots. The[…]
In the universal Church, this is the feast of the Ascension, celebrated forty days after the Resurrection, on which we begin the most ancient novena in our tradition, the nine days to the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. In Canada and a number of other places – for ‘pastoral reasons’, not least that[…]
Our mind-numbing, tax-crazy, abortion-euthanasia-climate-gender-sex-obsessed, debt-and-deficit-be-damned embarrassment of a government just gets worse by the day. And, although I am not one for posting privately filmed videos, if a public figure is going to admit something in public about what they do while ‘working’ on the public dime, I will make an exception. So here is[…]
