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
‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace! (Jn. 2:16). The cleansing of the Temple speaks to the nature and purpose of worship and by extension, places of worship; our churches. To engage in the act of worship implies the recognition of something or someone greater than we are. This[…]
In Lent we pledge ourselves to acquire virtue. The one, perhaps the only, virtue universally honoured today is tolerance. It is a useful Lenten exercise, therefore, to examine it carefully. The abuse of an attitude often lets us see more clearly its defining characteristics. What happens if you exaggerate tolerance? A moment’s thought reveals that[…]
If the physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether a life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state. (Dr. Christopher Huffland, +1836)
This video is not easy to watch, so be forewarned. However, it does signify in a visceral, personal way why we should not kill people – not least, the mentally ill; that people don’t really want to die; and that if more knew of God and His love, how much more bearable, even joyful, their lives[…]
In this Lenten season, readers may feel like the Israelites, under their heavy taskmasters in Egypt, forced to make bricks without straw. People must pay rent and mortgages and taxes without jobs or income; look for a job, when there are so few and nearly everything closed; maintain some sort of social life when most[…]
We posted this documentary in the article on the barbarism of Bill C-7, but thought it important enough to stand on its own. Fascinating, if sombre and evocative, how subtly those dedicated to healing – in this case, nurses, who were tasked with much of the actual hands-on dirty work – can devolve into killers,[…]
One of the most beautiful uplifting things that helps me stay focused on Lent is the theme of light. In his Angelus address of Sunday 28 February 2021, Pope Francis invited us to ignite the light of the transfigured Christ everywhere we go. He told us: We are called to experience the encounter with Christ so that, enlightened by his light, we[…]
On a note of fond nostalgia, a former student has written a reflection of his time here, going on pilgrimage to Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland. From his introduction: Perhaps it is nostalgia that has me think back every March to when I attended an authentic Catholic college. The transience of those lighthearted years brings a[…]
George Santayana’s aphorism that those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it came to mind quite forcefully this week. And, I thought, if ignorance of history is so deleterious, what are we to say of the ignorance of philosophy, of revealed truth, of Christ and His salvific message of hope in suffering?[…]
What does it take to become a saint? Will it. (Saint Thomas Aquinas, +1274)
