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
Roughly half of the narrative of the public life of Jesus is devoted to miracles, selected with obvious care. To begin with are all of single persons, of all sorts: men and women and even children. Altogether they represent healing of the whole person: fever, in Simon’s mother-in-law (1.30-31); leprosy (1.40-45); paralysis (2.1-12); a withered[…]
The most marked political tendency of the American people has been to interpret their government as a pure and simple democracy, and to shift it from a territorial to a purely popular basis … to change their constitution from a republican to a despotic, or from a civilized to a barbaric constitution. Thus begins chapter[…]
Agatha, the name of our saint, means “good.” She was truly good, for she lived as a child of God. She was also given as the gift of God, the source of all goodness to her bridegroom, Christ, and to us. For she grants us a share in her goodness. (Saint Methodius of Sicily)
Whether the young and drunkards both abound in hope is a question asked by Saint Thomas in his treatise on that most enigmatic and – we must admit – all-too-neglected virtue (I-II, q. 40, a. 6). He answers in the affirmative, reasoning that, to the youth, lacking experience and history, the future seems large, expansive[…]
In one of those intriguing ironies of history, Pierre Trudeau legalized abortion, at the beginning of life, while it was left to his son, Justin, to legalize euthanasia, at the end of life – sicut pater, sicut filius. The evil siblings of abortion and euthanasia – which, at the end of the day, are murder,[…]
MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER JOHN PAUL II FOR THE I WORLD DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE Venerable Brothers in the Episcopate, Dear consecrated persons! 1. The celebration of the World Day for Consecrated Life, which will be observed for the first time on 2 February, is intended to help the entire Church to esteem[…]
For another perspective on the Covid vaccine, looming on the horizon, here is some advice from Dr. Janet Smith, the tireless supporter and proponent of Humanae Vitae. I will emphasize again words from my own reflection that each person must, and is free to, decide in his own conscience, given all the factors involved. It seems[…]
A blessed feast of the Presentation, also called Candlemas, celebrating the dedication of the child Jesus in the Temple, the Purification of Our Lady after her childbirth, and the beginning of Christ’s mission as a light unto the Gentiles, the salvation of the whole human race. For some musical devotion, I would highly recommend two[…]
The true light has come, the light that enlightens every man who is born into this world. Let all of us, my brethren, be enlightened and made radiant by this light. Let all of us share in its splendour, and be so filled with it that no one remains in the darkness. Let us be[…]
Their name comes from a riposte of Flannery O’Connor, who said once: Everybody who has read Wise Blood thinks I’m a hillbilly nihilist, whereas . . . I’m a hillbilly Thomist. Well, the ‘Hillbilly Thomists’ are professed members of the Dominican Order, who play Christian bluegrass on the side – of their more Dominican pursuits –[…]
