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
(Some may not agree with all of Dr. Alexander Lozano’s conclusions, but his analysis of the issue of ensoulment and cloning is certainly an intriguing one, with the distinctions he raises making us think more deeply about the beautiful and mysterious creation of each, unique human being, as an interplay between God, man and woman,[…]
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they will differ enormously in what evils they will call excusable (G.K. Chesterton)
There are different ways to lie. The classical definition is ‘to enunciate a falsehood with the intent to deceive’, derived from Saint Augustine, adopted by Saint Thomas (I-II, 110, 1-2), who draws from this the criteria for a full-blown lie: Falsehood in what is spoken, awareness that such is false and the deception. There can[…]
He looked at the dandelions and crickets and realized that he was gigantic. We are too fond of reckoning by mountains, every object is infinitely vast as well as infinitely small. He stretched himself like one crucified in an uncontainable greatness. “Oh God, who hast made me and all things, hear four songs of praise. One[…]
On Sunday 13 2021 the universal Church, and particularly, the Franciscan Order, celebrate with great joy the feast of St Anthony of Padua. In the words of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, during his weekly catechesis on this saint, delivered on 10 February 2010, St Anthony “is one of the most popular Saints in the whole Catholic[…]
I’m not surprised the day has arrived, that historians are now rehabilitating – so to speak – the reputation of the diabolical monstrosities of Emperor Nero, with a fawning display at the British Museum: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/how-nasty-was-nero-really How bad was Nero, really? Well, it depends on whom you trust, and almost all the contemporary sources, secular and[…]
My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God (Our Lady of Fatima to Sister Lucia)
To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my[…]
If the Lord never tires to forgive it is because His heart is never tired from loving us, poor sinners. In fact, God’s love in the heart of Jesus simply imparts to our hearts its inexhaustible love. The Sacred Heart of Jesus’ inexhaustible love is hidden knowledge coupled with wisdom. In his homily for the[…]
This is a question that I find myself pondering with some regularity, but for the last few years during the month of June – I cannot seem to escape it. The formerly oppressed minority in the interminably increasing alphabet soup of sexual and gender identities and now a host of social justice causes among the[…]
