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
To suffer in love is the greatest of all joys.[1] Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds… [2] What is it about the saints that enables them to suffer so joyfully? Most of us do everything we can to avoid suffering. We dread it, worry endlessly about[…]
(Anna Kalinowska over at OnePeterFive has an intriguing take on modesty and dress, placing the virtue of modesty as on the pinnacle of three pillars: of truth, of goodness and of beauty. We should not reduce modesty to something accidental, such as the length of a skirt. We should rediscover what is beautiful and becoming,[…]
Maureen Wittmann Co-Director Homeschool Connections www.homeschoolconnections.com 1-888-372-4757 Contact for Interviews Homeschool Connections is once again bringing together top speakers and vendors for their 3rd annual virtual Catholic Homeschool Conference: “Empowering You to Homeschool Joyfully”. While on-line events hit their high due to the pandemic, this virtual event continues to reach thousands of international homeschoolers[…]
The proof is in the pudding, as the saying has it, which means that a recipe is only as good as its finished product. Scrumptious, or not? Science too proceeds primarily a posteriori, ‘from things that come afterwards’, namely, the evidence of our senses, whether or not these senses are augmented by technology (telescopes, microscopes,[…]
Pope Francis canonized ten members of Christ’s Mystical Body last Sunday, including the dissolute French officer who turned his life 180 degrees, becoming an ascetic hermit in the desert of North Africa, Charles de Foucauld, and the Carmelite, philosophy professor and journalist, Titus Brandmsa. We may hope meet them all, someday. This, while the world[…]
I was in the Niagara region for a wedding last weekend, and, cycling around, I came across this statue of George VI overlooking the falls. I liked the ring of ‘King of Canada’, and a monarchy might well work better than what passes for democracy in this fair land. But what struck me even more[…]
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me. Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of[…]
One of the fastest growing ‘religious’ groups in the West are the ‘nones’, and I put that in scare quotes, since these are those who espouse no religion, with an indifference to any form of organized worship, who may confess to a vague spirituality, but one of this world, a seeking after self-fulfillment, one that[…]
It was on this day, Mary 12th 1866, at Herzegovina, close to the Kotor Gulf, in Herceg Novi, or Castelnuovo in Dalmatia on the Adriatic sea when Bogdan (Adeodato) was born. The youngest child from twelve children, he was the Benjamin of the family. Bogdan was baptised on June 13, feast of St Anthony of[…]
Propaganda and censorship have had a bad rap, pummeled in the twentieth century almost into swear words, but in their essence and etymology, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with them. They’ve just been put to bad use – and hence, have developed bad meanings. Propagare is Latin for the cognate English word ‘propagate’, to spread[…]
