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 brief mention of today’s saint, Blessed Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (+1541), the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, who was in turn the brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III, of Shakespeare’s fame – but the last of the Plantagenets has been somewhat maligned, methinks. When Richard fell in the Battle of[…]
Theresa May has resigned, after her tragic failure in managing Brexit – or her success in mismanaging the whole debacle. The problems go far deeper than Ms. May’s own political deficiencies, to that metaphysical malaise rotting the core of Britain’s soul. As we alluded in reference to yesterday’s Saint Augustine of Canterbury, England no longer[…]
As providence would have it, on this memorial of Saint Augustine of Canterbury – the ‘other’ Saint Augustine – who evangelized and solidified the Faith in England, another article by William Kilpatrick warning of the de-Christianization of the British island. There are two primary, and reciprocal, factors at play in its degradation: The secularization, even[…]
If it ’twere not the Sixth Sunday of Easter, we would celebrate today one of the most joyful and idiosyncratic of saints, Philip Neri, (+1595), the founder of the Congregation of the Oratory named after him, first in Rome (the city of which he was called the ‘second Apostle’), with houses now throughout the world.[…]
In the liturgical revisions after Vatican II, the more complex hierarchy of feasts was simplified, so that we now have solemnities, feasts, memorials and optional memorials, the last of which dot the calendar, and are, as their name implies, optional, so that we may celebrate them as our proclivity – primarily our devotion – moves[…]
There is no easy solution to the present crisis in the Catholic Church, which is a crisis of faith, of doctrine, of morals and metaphysics, of soteriology and eschatology, all of which transcend Pope Francis, along with his cardinals, confidants and counsellors. One need only look at the near-total rejection of Humanae Vitae and other[…]
“My motto; ‘Totus Tuus’ is inspired by the teaching of St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort. These two words express total belonging to Jesus through Mary: ‘Tuus totus ego sum, et omnia mea tua sunt,’ St Louis Marie wrote, and he translates his words: ‘I am all yours, and all that I have is yours, O most loving Jesus,[…]
I must confess that I had never heard of Father Jonathan Morris – perhaps for the simple reason that I don’t watch television – until the story of his request to be laicized made its way through the news. In general, we should leave a person’s vocational discernment private, but, then, so should the person[…]
There are two saints of impossible or desperate causes – Saint Jude, one of the Twelve, and today’s Saint Rita of Cascia (+1457). Although she wanted to enter religious life, Rita was married off to an irascible, abusive, philandering, feud-fighting nobleman, Paolo Mancini, at the tender age of twelve (things were different back then), bearing[…]
A brief mention of Saint Cristobal Magallanes Jara and 26 companions, all canonized on this day in the Jubilee year of 2000 by Pope Saint John Paul II, when they are now commemorated. Father Cristobal was captured while on his way to say Mass, and shot without a trial, in odium fidei. The other saints[…]
