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
Concerning the comments received on Overplaying the Heretical Hand, here is my clarification, for what it may be worth: The charge of heresy – a canonical and legal one – is not only serious, but, more to the point at hand, one that has to be indisputably proven, especially when a Pope is involved, preferably[…]
Just in case you thought Saint Thomas Aquinas was a solitary, ivory-tower academic, here are two thoughts for all of us to ponder, in a world where so many are lonely, even in the midst of crowds of people: There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Not only that,[…]
Anti-abortion ads removed from GRT buses – Complaint by women’s sexual health organization prompts region to pull ads” – Johanna Weidner, Waterloo Region Record, April 5, 2019 Where books are burned, in the end, people will also be burned -Heinrich Heine -1823 (German Jewish poet who predicted the future Holocaust) On May 10, 1933 Nazi[…]
Pope Francis begins his journey – I like to think of these as pilgrimages, as all our journeys ultimately should be – to Bulgaria today, and he has his work cut out for him. Like most nations in Europe, Bulgaria suffered and was carved up as a result of the two World Wars, fighting on[…]
Is Pope Francis a heretic? So claims the recent letter, signed by various theological luminaries of various stripes, including, to my surprise, the Dominican priest, Father Aidan Nichols, whose sharp mind, I would have thought, might have seen through the limitations of this radical claim. The thing about heresy, as a canonical crime, is that[…]
One can scarcely believe the admission of Democratic State Representative John Rogers, who will go down in infamy for admitting the following concerning babies killed by abortion. But, as i wrote yesterday, it is good that things are now coming out in the full light of day: Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them[…]
To face what joys and troubles we might, we will provide some quotations for inspiration, and here is one from the mighty pen of Chestrton: “An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.” – “On Running After Ones Hat,” All Things Considered From: https://www.chesterton.org/quotations-of-g-k-chesterton/
In his short story “The Ambitious Guest,” Nathaniel Hawthorne uses a lot of irony. A lot might actually be an understatement. The story is riddled with irony from the beginning to the rather awful ending. It is primarily a story about a young traveler who has great plans for his life. He believes that it[…]
Philip and James, Apostles, have been celebrated together on this day in May since the revision of the calendar in 1969. Philip is the one who asks our Lord ‘show us the Father, and we will be satisfied’, to which Christ replies, ‘He who has seen me has seen the Father’, that He and the[…]
Today is the memorial of one of the most heroic bishops in the history of the Church, the great Saint Athanasius (+373), mighty foe of Arianism, and the hero of Bd. John Henry Cardinal Newman, whose essays on the fourth-century bishop still make for delightful and edifying reading. It was by studying the early Church[…]
