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
In a remarkable and rather disturbing turn of events, a group of seasoned spiritual leaders and academics have written an open letter, accusing the Holy Father of heresy, asking him to repent and clarify his errors, and urging the bishops and cardinals to take the necessary steps if he does not, for the good of[…]
Before we leave the great French-Canadian missionary Saint Marie of the Incarnation in the liturgical rear-view mirror, a word on the consecrated life as better and more ‘objectively perfect’ path to heaven, a truth that, to my own anecdotal evidence, has been rather muted of late in the Church. In the recent memorial of Saint[…]
I was going to write about Greta Thunberg, the Swedish moppet who has some serious sour grapes about climate change, and is famous for organizing the now-worldwide ‘Climate Strike’, where students walk out of class to protest inaction on ‘climate change’. So, students do nothing because governments do nothing. Readers may expect that I would[…]
We hear much of mercy, which in its Latin original is derived from miser (sad) and cordia (heart). In his one question in the Summa on mercy, Saint Thomas Aquinas states that mercy derives from our being moved with pity at the sight of another’s suffering, to feel compassion for them, with a desire to[…]
A blessed Second Sunday of Easter, or Sunday in the Octave of Easter or, now, Divine Mercy Sunday, proclaimed so by Pope (now Saint) John Paul II in the Jubilee year 2000, when Easter was also late in the calendar (it was the 30th of April but, from memory, the weather far warmer, at least[…]
A blessed and joyous Easter Octave to all our readers, and I hope everyone is enjoying this week of Sundays, indeed, week of Easter Sundays wherein, with Our Lady and the Apostles, we ‘rejoice with great joy’, for our Lord has risen indeed. My apologies for being a bit remiss in posting, for – if[…]
(A few years ago, we published the following letter, which was sent to Catholic Insight in response to my brief posting on the letter of the Bishops of Atlantic Canada, in their own tragically inadequate response to the sacraments and the suicide-euthanasia law, euphemistically termed ‘medical assistance in dying’. Ms. Ackford back then kindly agreed[…]
Very often we hear it said that when tackling thorny questions, two heads are better than one. As for considering the many facets of relativism, it might be difficult to find two heads better equipped for the job than those atop the torsos of Messieurs Francis J. Beckwith and Gregory Koukl. Beckwith is an author,[…]
They who hear the song love the singer Music promising light from darkness Peace and life ever lasting Glory making fathers and mothers proud Song eternal carried by the wind Lilting delightful serenade of creation. Nature sways to sweetest melody Seas churn with[…]
The Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, killing nearly three hundred, wounding five hundred more, have merited near-universal condemnation. Worshipers at Sunday Mass – men, women and children, for such explosives do not discriminate – mangled, maimed, killed. All on the most solemn of Christian feasts. Factions of the ‘religion of peace’ are blamed, with[…]
