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
Saint Paul’s letter to the Romans is based on a parallel between the figures of Adam and Jesus Christ. In the Bible, Adam is a symbol of the unity of the human race, a unity that sadly shows itself in the violence, the infidelity, the sinfulness that we find everywhere in human history, and that[…]
Suppose for instance someone maintained that there is a minimum magnitude; that man with his minimum would shake the foundations of mathematics. So prophesied Aristotle more twenty-four centuries ago.[1] And, as with many things Aristotelian, how right he was. Why it took that long for that ‘man with his minimum’ to come along is a[…]
October 24th is the feast of Anthony Mary Claret, and, although this is a Sunday this year, we may spend a few moments pondering this great Spanish saint. Anthony was born in Salient in Catalonia, Spain, in 1807. His father was a weaver. Initially Anthony took up the same trade, following in his father’s footsteps.[…]
‘Son of David, have mercy on me’ (Mk. 10:47). ⧾ The request made by Bartimaeus in his encounter with Our Lord reveals two things: the blind man’s faith in Our Lord’s power to heal him, and the fact that at one time this man had been able to see, but on account of an unspecified[…]
Another professor, Dr. Philip Britz-McKibben, a tenured bioanalytical chemist, stands against the universally coerced ‘vaccine mandates’. (And may there be many more with his courage and clarity). His open letter is posted here with permission, and, as an expert on these matters from the scientific perspective, he knows whereof he speaks. If nothing else, read[…]
Today, Friday 22 October 2021, the universal Church cries out with joy for the feast of Pope St John Paul II. On this very day, forty three years ago, in the fully packed St Peter Square, the voice of this great holy Polish Pope echoed around the four corners of the world with these life-giving[…]
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless (G.K. Chesterton)
If there is one thing that is omnipresent in empirical research, it is doubt. This line has always stuck with me, from a methodology textbook I studied years ago. We may rephrase this in a more theological way: There are no dogmas in science. This is not to say there can’t be certainty. ‘Science’ in[…]
Saint Robert Cardinal Bellarmine (1452-1621) was a theologian and scholar of the first rank. After joining the newly formed Order of the Society of Jesus, he dedicated himself to opposing the dissolution of Christendom’s unity by way of being a principal figure at the Council of Trent, which was assembled to address the problems erupting[…]
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741) – a Catholic priest, but who spent much of his time as a composer than a pastor due, as he confessed, to his own precarious health. but also, likely, from proclivity – was one of the most voluminous musicians of the baroque, who were, as we saw recently with Telemann,[…]
