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 this day, January 25th, in 1533, Henry VIII secretly married his paramour Anne Boleyn, for whom he had thrown off not only his true wife, Catherine of Aragon, but the papacy itself, to gain what he coveted. And so began the destruction of the Church in England. Anne would be beheaded on Henry’s order[…]
Saint Thomas distinguishes between the formal and the material objects of faith: The material being what we believe, the formal why we believe it, the authority in whom we place our trust. Dr. Robert Malone, one of the primary inventors of the mRNA vaccine technology, comes across as someone you can trust: No self-interest, nothing[…]
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness (Christ to Saint Paul, 2 Cor 12:9)
The final, fourth movement of Bach’s partita for violin in D minor, composed between 1717 and 1720, is often called ‘the chaconne’, even if other chaconnes exist. (Just as Saint Thomas’ Summa is called the Summa, amongst any number of others who tried). Some have described the chaconne as amongst the greatest 13 or so[…]
It must be admitted that sermons can be awfully boring. I know that my heart sinks when I hear a priest begin, “In the first reading. . . .” After summarizing what we have already just heard, he moves on: “And in the second reading. . . .” Finally, when he says, “And in the[…]
The power of government rests on ignorance of the people, and it knows this, and therefore will always resist enlightenment. Leo Tolstoy Earlier this month, Tucker Carlson declared that historians will one day come to view his country’s handling of the Covid pandemic as the greatest crime in American history. The Fox News commentator cited[…]
When the Constitutional Convention concluded, Benjamin Franklin upon his exit from the event was accosted by a woman who asked him what kind of government the people had been given. “A republic, madam … if you can keep it,” Franklin tersely replied. Thomas Sowell’s Dismantling America: and Other Controversial Essays (2010) was far-sighted to say[…]
Christ is my Spouse, He chose me first and His I will be. He made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him whom the angels serve. – Saint Agnes of Rome
Alice von Hildebrand, the widow of Dietrich von Hildebrand, and a brilliant and popular professor of philosophy and theology in her own right, died peacefully in her sleep last Friday, January 14th, at the age of 94. Her story is a remarkable one – a refugee from Europe at the beginning of the Second World[…]
This intriguing, and tragic development proves a warning, if true. A man in France had a life insurance policy worth millions. He got the jab – as Macron warned, your life is merde without it – and died from complications thereof. Requiescat in pace. The insurance company has so far refused to pay out, allegedly claiming[…]
