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
(This analysis of Alfred Hitchock’s film noir classic ‘I Confess’ offers some key insights, but, as a caveat, also gives away elements of the plot. So spoiler alert, if you have not yet seen it. Perhaps best to give it a viewing, then read on, Macduff). Editor Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess (1953) is best known[…]
Already it has begun, with the bodies of the Christchurch victims not yet buried, and the emotional calls for condemnation even of the very hints of ‘Islamophobia’. Every one of our own political leaders has chimed in unison: Listen to the plaintive cries of the sentimentalists: Criticism of the ‘religion of the Prophet’, even a[…]
A blessed and joyous solemnity of Saint Joseph to one and all! The silent saint from the Gospel, husband of the Virgin Mary, and foster father (protector) of the Christ, was proclaimed the patron of this country at its very origins, by none other than Samuel de Champlain, on March 19, 1624, a choice later[…]
Are old people wise? Have they learned anything from experience? Or are they all curmudgeons, continually grumbling about the young generation and contrasting it unfavourably with the way things used to be? Well, as an old man myself, I may observe that it is possible to be both wise and curmudgeonly at one and the[…]
Disinformation, noun: false information spread deliberately and often covertly (by planting rumours) to deceive in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth. The English word disinformation is a borrowed translation of the Russian dezinformatsiya, derived from the title of a KGB black propaganda department. Josef Stalin coined the term, giving it a French-sounding name to claim it had a[…]
‘Tis the ides of March[1], when one is meant to beware, for it marks the assassination of Julius Caesar, a famous enough event in itself, which changed Roman, and therefore world, history, made more famous by the Bard’s play. Et tu, Brute? Were the last words that Shakespeare gave the dying consul-dictator – it is[…]
Tragedy in Christchurch, New Zealand, the bucolic land of sheep and Lord of the Rings, where murder is about as rare as it can be in this post-Cain world, as at least 49 people – Muslims, worshiping for Friday prayers – have been killed in an apparent terrorist attack, perpetrated by a white, 28-year old[…]
The gauntlet has now been thrown down, that computers, or more specifically artificial intelligence will soon be able to create more perfect art than humans. This prediction, or threat, depending upon your point of view, applies in particular to music, the most mathematical and ‘algorithmic’ of the arts, following set patterns of chord structure, harmonies,[…]
As justice has it, each of us deserves his day in court, and should be deemed innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. But such does not always ensure justice is done. That is why the case against George Cardinal Pell seems so unjust, for there seems to be not only lots of reasonable doubt of[…]
The Ecclesiastical Schola of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, in conjunction with Our Lady of the Wayside School accompanied by a chamber orchestra, are presenting Gabriel Faure’s hauntingly beautiful Requiem, completed in 1900 and which, as the composer himself confessed, is ‘dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest’.[…]
