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
On September 23rd, 1924, the universe got a little bigger – at least from our perspective. The ancients – Aristotle, Plato, Ptolemy – thought the cosmos more or less the size of our Solar System, stretching as far as Saturn, with a sphere of fixed stars rotating just beyond that. When modern telescopes were invented,[…]
In previous articles that I have written, I have noted the merits and demerits of certain ways of describing the fatherhood of Saint Joseph, namely, the titles of Putative and Legal Father,[1] Foster Father and Virginal Father,[2] and lastly Spiritual Father.[3] But in this article of mine, I would like to suggest a title for[…]
On this feast of Saint Caecelia, patroness of music, especially of the ecclesial sort, it is fitting we present one of the greatest of Church musicians, Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina, a master of counterpoint polyphony, of the ars perfecta, the most perfect art of music. Palestrina was contemporaneous with his spiritual director, Saint Philip Neri,[…]
The faithful, moreover, by meditating upon these truths, will gain much strength and courage, enabling them to form their lives after the true Christian ideal. If to Christ our Lord is given all power in heaven and on earth; if all men, purchased by his precious blood, are by a new right subjected to his[…]
‘For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice’ (Jn. 18:37). Today we mark the end of the liturgical year by celebrating the great Feast of Christ the Universal King; and though we contemplate Christ our[…]
A blessed solemnity of Christ the King to all our readers! A rather recent feast, as Church history goes, first promulgated by Pope Pius XI in the wake of the ‘war to end all wars’, in his encyclical of December 11, 1925, Quas Primas, in the sixteenth centenary of the Council of Nicaea, which, as[…]
George Buscemi is right, and his words should be read by all our bishops and priests and everyone sitting in the pews wondering what is going on around us. We are at war, and must rediscover what it means to be the ‘Church militant’, fighting the forces of evil, the world, the flesh and the[…]
Newfoundland and Labrador, jutting out into the cold North Atlantic, have been battered in past decades – no pun on their fishing industry, which has too suffered. They seem to get the worst of winter storms, howling winds and snow hurled in across the briny sea. Their economy has been on the ropes, kept afloat[…]
On his visit to our college a number of years ago, the late Jesuit priest and scholar Father Koterski mentioned a book that he described as the ‘most influential he has ever read’, namely, his fellow Jesuit’s Father Paul Quay’s “The Mystery Hidden for Ages in God” – whose subtitle is ‘why aren’t Catholics holier[…]
For reasons which will be apparent, my alias is Martin Beck. I am about to present several excerpts from the diary of my academic colleague and friend, alias Cosmos Korb. I discovered all the volumes of his diary, several boxes full in his apartment, which I had been asked to help clean out upon his[…]
