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
Last year on Palm Sunday we heard the passion from Saint Mark’s Gospel, and next year it will be from Saint Matthew. Each is different in detail from the other, and that holds for this year too, as we listen to Saint Luke’s account. Typically, Luke emphasizes the compassion of Jesus as when he prayed[…]
As we stand on the eve of Holy Week, it is fitting that the Church recall on this memorial, Pope Saint Martin I (+649), one of the noblest, if most tragic, of the successors of Saint Peter. Born in Umbria, Italy, he was of noble lineage, with great intelligence combined with charity and love of[…]
In a remarkable turn of events, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI – former cardinal Josef Ratzinger – has just released a reflection on the current sex-abuse crisis in the Church, indeed in the world. The 6000 word article – originally destined for publication in a journal for Bavarian priests – analyses the source of the widespread[…]
The Italian journalist and Catholic convert Vittorio Messori in 1985 published his two hundred page interview with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, under the title The Ratzinger Report. Thirty-four years later it is worthwhile to be reminded of where the Church was then, according to its future pope, so that we might[…]
We now have our first actual photographic image of a black hole, those theoretical entities first posited in a rudimentary way by John Michell back in 1784, with corpuscles of light falling back like tiny droplets. The properties of these strange cosmological objects were outlined more accurately in light of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity (1915),[…]
If you would like a run-down of Pope Francis’ post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Jesus Vivit, you could do far worse than the critical wisdom of Father Stravinskas’ take – a long-ish review, but not as hefty as the exhortation itself, which clocks in at 33,000 words. I’m not sure how many youth are going to plough[…]
(What follows is adapted from a letter of a parish priest, Father Scott Murray, to a Catholic school teacher, in the publicly-funded, separate system, outlining some of the systemic difficulties that priests – and the Church in general – face. We will follow up on some of those difficulties, and propose what solutions we might.[…]
A reminder to please feel free to join us for Lenten Meditations this evening, Monday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. in St. Hedwig’s Church. These meditations will be featuring choral and organ music by Victoria, Palestrina, Pergolesi, Bach, Elgar, Fauré, and others. There are few better ways to enter into a devotional spirit, than immersing[…]
What follows is an excerpt from Pope (Emeritus) Benedict XVI’s last Lenten message, completed in October of 2012; I wonder, as he penned these words on faith and love, whether he was yet contemplating that fateful decision in the beginning of that very Lent of 2013 to resign the papacy, a Rubicon that has had,[…]
