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
Throughout her history, the Catholic Church has always had to struggle to address controversial issues of all kinds, and what we are facing in our own age is nothing new. Open your bible to the New Testament and you will read about the Apostles themselves had controversies, even with each other. In what has been[…]
The 22nd of August of the feast of the Queenship of Mary, which this year falls on a Sunday, one week after the Assumption. Officially this feast has a short history, as it was Pope Pius XII who established it in 1954. However its roots are very old indeed. If we glance at Holy Scripture[…]
This Sunday’s reflection is the seventh in a series of meditations on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, with specific references to the Ancient Rite of the Mass, the Usus Antiquior. There are many books in circulation that illustrate the theological and spiritual cohesion of the Ancient Rite of the Mass. It is the Rite[…]
We will post our Sunday musical selection a day early this week, as there is a Marian theme, fitting for this Saturday in August, the feast of Pope Saint Pius X – who restored the beauty of chant to liturgical worship – and what would be the vigil of Our Lady’s Queenship. Heinrich Ignaz Franz[…]
(Today, August 20th, marks the anniversary of the publication Darwin’s Origin of Species, in 1858, whose full title includes also “by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”. His model has proven effective in explaining certain phenomena, but, as Pope Saint John Paul II declared in his[…]
One of our readers asked: I have read that occasionally if a zygote splits, it will sometimes join back together instead of going on to form twins. This rises an interesting, and currently unanswered question: since a human being is indivisible, how can you say that the split zygote has two souls if it splits[…]
Today, the 20th of August, the universal Church celebrates “the man of the twelfth century”, St Bernard of Clairvaux. Born in 1090 in Fontaines, France, he was raised in a large family. After being educated in the liberal arts of grammar, rhetoric and dialectics at the school of the canons of the Church of Saint-Vorles[…]
In the contrast between our religious chaos and the religious certitude still strong throughout the Mohammedan world. . .lies our peril. (Hilaire Belloc)
Wednesday 18 August 2021 marks the feast of St Helena, Mother of the Emperor Constantine the Great. St Helena is also known – perhaps more so – for finding or what we call it, as the invention of the Cross of Christ in Jerusalem. However, her life story has much to teach us in our[…]
Tributes are pouring in for Father Joseph Koterski, one of the loyal sons of Saint Ignatius, who loved the Society of Jesus to which he had given his life. When Jesuits are faithful to their founder’s charism of true orthodoxy, sharp intelligence and wit, fidelity to their duty and charism, well, they’re very good –[…]
