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 2015, when Justin Trudeau described Canada to the New York Times as the world’s “first postnational state,” adding “there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada”, he was said to be expressing a uniquely Canadian philosophy that some found bewildering – even reckless – but which could represent a radical new model of[…]
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)
“I am the resurrection and the life. He that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.” John 11:25-26 Josef Pieper (1904 –1997) was a German philosopher of the Platonist and Thomist schools of philosophy. His most highly regarded book is[…]
when we have purged our souls of every illusion and every disordered affection, we will see our own beauty as an image of the divine nature. (Saint Gregory of Nyssa)
Our world is becoming increasingly violent; a world where people are led and misled by half-truths, slogans and ideological clichés. This violence is directed against individuals and institutions; and a new term – cancel culture – has been coined to describe what can happen to individuals, especially to historical figures and even institutions that may[…]
He must increase, but I must decrease. (Saint John the Baptist, Jn 3:30)
The wayward Liberals continue their dismantling of Canada: After just killing the proposed bill that would have prohibited at least gender-selective abortion, they just passed third reading of their threatened law prohibiting ‘conversion therapy’ for minors. Anyone eighteen and under who suffers from gender dysphoria, SSA and other spiritual and psychological ills must be left[…]
1. When you feel like quitting “You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds… What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can.” 2. Why trials are necessary “Every tribulation whichever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal,[…]
It is better to be the child of God than king of the whole world (Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, +1591)
Josef Rheinberger (+ 1901), a native of tiny Liechtenstein, but resident of Germany for most of his life, was a prolific fin de siècle composer, known mostly for his complex, beautiful concerti for organ, on which instrument he was a master. Yet his most recognized piece is his Abendlied (evening song), a transcendent polyphonic motet in six[…]
