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
It might seem odd to celebrate a ‘chair’, even one of Saint Peter, but today’s feast commemorates not a physical object, but the office of the papacy bestowed upon the Apostle Simon, whom Christ christened Peter – Kephas – as the ‘rock’ upon which the Church would be founded. Of course, Peter himself, the fallible and weak[…]
Blaise Cardinal Cupich has denied any link between homosexuality and the sexual abuse crisis, and that the upcoming synod will not only not focus on the former, but will not even mention the sin contra naturam, that, ironically, was once called the sin that one could not even name, it was so sordid. Hence, its[…]
Of course, as non-rational beings, elephants cannot lust, but I agree with Julia Meloni that unless the hierarchical powers-that-be realize that the clerical abuse crisis is much more than a question of victimized ‘minors’, not much will be solved. The deeper problem is that of homosexuality and, beyond that, sexual malfeasance in general. Nothing so disorders[…]
“What did I do to them?” Shah Reza Pahlavi, 1979 Throughout the world, February 11 of this year may have seemed like any other day. It wasn’t. On that day, Iranians took to the streets nationwide to mark the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution which began in the early days of 1979 with the[…]
Cardinal Mueller’s Manifesto continues to create quite the stir, opening up what seems be a deep division within the Vatican. What that division signifies has itself yet to be clarified, but it has something to do with those who seek clarity and precision – two hallmarks of theology, as I will never tire of repeating[…]
A blessed memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, the World Day of the Sick, on which I posted a few words in an editorial. Today’s regular reading, in God’s good providence, corresponds with the feast, as the crowds press in upon Christ, and all those who touched even the ‘hem of His garment’ were healed,[…]
In one of the many ironies of this Humpty Dumpty age where words no longer mean what they are meant to mean, but only what people want them to mean, the Boy Scouts will now admit girls, which might seem odd, but not if you’re ‘woke’, and a girl may be a boy, a boy[…]
Minstrelsy has a rather long and convoluted history, its origin with a singing group of white men from Virginia – the Virginia Minstrels – who in the innocent days of 1843 decided to darken their faces with cork as they put on a banjo show at New York’s Bowery Amphitheatre, in a fad that in various forms[…]
(In light of today’s feast of the Martyrs of Japan, what follows is a brief excerpt from Pope Saint John Paul II’s masterpiece – and too often neglected – encyclical Veritatis Splendor, the Splendour of Truth, on the principles of the moral life. Here the Holy Father meditates upon, and exalts, martyrdom for the sake[…]
It may seem a bit odd to speak of modesty when the weather outside is frightful—at least roundabout where I live in rural Ontario. But modesty is not just an outdoors virtue, as a trip anywhere—from the grocery store to the office staff party to the local yoga class—will demonstrate. In the words of the Bard,”Can[…]
