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
Nebraska (2013) Written by Bob Nelson Directed by Alexander Payne A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.[1] Christopher Dawson’s statement is a prophecy that has come to pass in our day. Nebraska is proof of the fact, if any be needed. The plot of[…]
A reader, in response to my recent and all-too-brief musings on Dr. Theresa Tam, vaccines, masks, lockdowns and such, wrote the following: That was on (sic) of the most incoherent rants that I have ever read. A public health officer is tasked to address health issues and if people are having oral sex and there[…]
I chanced upon a slim volume this year, by an author whom I greatly admire, Thomist philosopher Josef Pieper. In the midst of what seems a rather ‘hopeless’ year – from one perspective – I read his Hope and History which, as the title promised, provided some buoyance from that all-too-neglected and misunderstood virtue, the[…]
On October 21, the documentary Francesco premiered at the Rome Film Festival.[1] Directed by Emmy-nominated director Evgeny Afineevsky,[2] Francesco received the Kinéo Movie for Humanity Award, issued by the Italian Ministry for Culture for the promotion of “social and humanitarian themes,” the award being given in the Vatican Gardens the following day.[3] Francesco’s thematic focuses[…]
Theresa Tam is an odd, mysterious person, about whose past we know little, except that for years she has been involved in various globalist endeavours, as are most of Trudeau’s inner circle, especially the now-nearly-omnipotent and ominously named WHO. Tam’s recommendation of faceless masked sex – yes, a mouth condom to protect from you-now-what, never[…]
I AM the Way to heaven’s road but you cannot come with such a load of things so heavy you think you knead where only living bread will feed. I AM the treasure, I AM the King, I AM the wind beneath your wing like petals falling in the midst of May, for My smallest[…]
It is said that princes and noblemen at public schools in England each had their own ‘whipping boy’, a low-born student who would take their punishments for them, since it was infra dignitatem to actually cane a prince. The theory goes, seeing one of his friends, however distant and beneath him, take the hit would[…]
John is the voice, but the Lord is the Word who was in the beginning. John is the voice that lasts for a time; from the beginning Christ is the Word who lives for ever. (Saint Augustine, +430)
In the 75 years since the end of the Second World War and the Holocaust, it is still hard to say how much the world has lost, particularly in the area of music. Some music survives from this time, such as the Catholic organist-composer Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps, which was written[…]
The Carmelite Order traces its spiritual roots back to the prophet Elijah, but its practical foundation was in the twelfth century, round about the same time as the Franciscans and Dominicans. In such long-standing institutions, there is the principle: Semper reformanda est – that they are always in need of reform (well, the unique Carthusians[…]
