Kyrie for Peace
It seems a propos as our musical selection to meditate with an Eastern choral Kyrie, for peace in Ukraine:
Month: February 2022
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith. – Pope Saint John Paul II
VIII Sunday and Seeking Holiness
The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure produces evil; for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks (Lk. 6:45). ⧾ Our Gospel reading today is a continuation of last Sunday’s reading and again by means of concrete[…]
Verdict by Public Opinion
The topic The July 5, 2021 edition of The Globe and Mail carried an article with the headline “Amid the shameful residential school revelations I cannot remain a Catholic.” The recent round of publicity about the residential schools has focused on the presence of graves on the grounds of or near those schools. There have[…]
Building a Culture of Life, Through a Return of the Family Farm
Truth confirms truth and the general truths of the Faith promote this particular truth that the complete citizen is a free man working upon the land – Hilaire Belloc, Flee to the Fields 16). This is a pretty dynamic statement. Is Belloc saying that non-landowners are not complete citizens? Well, yes and no; there is[…]
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions – G.K. Chesterton
Miscellany from the Dominion
Nathan Pinkoski paints an intriguing analysis today in First Things of why the reaction to Covid is so extreme in Canada, and why our benighted Dominion in its Trudeaupian trance is doubling down. Not least on vaccine mandates, which are being dropped provincially, but maintained federally, where they know it matters most. Who cares about[…]
The Rule of Law: Keeping It All From Falling Apart
The rule of law – in which each power is balanced by other powers and by other spheres of responsibility which keep it within proper bounds…in which the law is sovereign and not the arbitrary will of men (cf., CCC, #1904) If love be the glue that holds societies together, law – we should say,[…]
Putting Covid in Perspective: A Reflection
(Even if one may not agree with everything herein – and who said we have to agree on everything? – this is certainly an intriguing take on the current Covid debate from the erudite pen of Dr. Dias) Introduction We live in a time of anxiety, particularly in the context of threats to our livelihood[…]
The Catholic Origins of the Big Bang
Caeli enarrant gloriam Dei… The heavens are telling the glory of God (Ps. 19) A recent article in OnePeterFive proposes that the Big Bang theory, – to be explained shortly – is a pagan proposition, replete with Gnostic overtones. One must be cautious here (and the author himself seems so, preferring apparently to remain anonymous).[…]