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 my pilgrimaging through England a couple of summers ago, which now seems like a different era, I made my way to the grave of the great G.K. Chesterton, not far from the house where he lived, still standing, but one wonders for how long, as they – the iconoclastic developers – want to turn[…]
You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. (Saint Norbert of Xanten, +1134)
‘Tis difficult to write history in the midst of it – for any ‘story’ needs a beginning, a middle and an end, and at least the last element of that tripartite equation is unknown, and the middle, amorphous. With images of cities burning across the landscape, the looting, pillaging, vandalizing, assaulting – almost all of[…]
In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship but to keep her on her course. (Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr, +754)
Saint Boniface, bishop and martyr, was hacked to death by a band of Frisian idol-worshippers on this day, June 5, 754, along with 52 of his companions. His life was one of tireless struggle to convert the pagans of Germania, steeped in dark, superstitious practices. The famous story of his boldly chopping down the ‘Donar[…]
Jonathan Robinson, The Mass and Modernity: Walking to Heaven Backwards. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2005. (First published in the Chesterton Review) When I mentioned Father Robinson’s latest book to a learned friend, he said, “Robinson . . . he wrote a good book on Hegel.” I can believe it. Although I haven’t read that book,[…]
To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit. (Saint Philip Neri)
The time we are living in now looks like a story taken from a fiction book. The world is upside down and everything seems to collapse. In the following essay, I would like to compare the present situation with the book written by the existentialist, Albert Camus called ‘The Plague’ and how the Catholic Church[…]
Father Jonathan Robinson, C.O. the founding superior of the Toronto Oratory, has just gone to eternity, after a brief illness. Ordained in 1962, just as the Second Vatican Council was beginning, Father Robinson saw the writing on the wall, that there was a need to preserver ‘tradition’, in all that term means – not least,[…]
There are different views of the evolving situation before us, but here is some food for thought from one perspective from Father Nix, who is in the canonical process of becoming a hermit. What you can do: 1) Decide when you are going to stop social distancing. This decision is up to you, not to the government or CNN.[…]
