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 January 1, Brazil recognized its new president, a socialist. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in with an elaborate inauguration ceremony before a crowd much smaller than any of those supporting his populist opponent, Jair Bolsonaro, who had served a president for four years. Lula’s swearing in was the result of an October[…]
What form will the antichrist take? Our Catholic tradition holds that he will be man, filled with evil, under a hypocritical façade of goodness, which will deceive many, but only because they want to be deceived. Beneath that veneer, he will hate Christ, His Church, all He stands for, and, yes, all of us Catholics,[…]
The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable. (Saint Hilary of Poitiers, +367)
As the aphorism goes, pictures speak a thousand words, as we witness societal devolution over the span of a few decades. School have become dangerous, even scandalous, places for children. Woe to those by whom…well, you get the rest.
Teaching is the work most suited to draw down the graces of God if it is done with purity of intention, without distinction between the poor and the rich, between relatives and friends and strangers, between the pretty and the ugly, the gentle and the grumblers, looking upon them all as drops of Our Lord’s[…]
George Cardinal Pell died yesterday, suffering a heart attack after what seemed to be routine hip surgery. Requiescat in pace. He was 81, and lived a long and full life, serving the Church in Australia, appointed archbishop of Melbourne by Pope Saint John Paul II in . He was an advisor to the pontiff,[…]
Pope Benedict XVI’s pontificate was principally marked by his extraordinary gift of teaching. His homilies can be easily seen as catechetical, much on the lines of the great fathers of the Church. This applies to his eight homilies on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. In the homily on this feast, January 8,[…]
Christ is bathed in light; let us also be bathed in light. Christ is baptized; let us also go down with him, and rise with him. (Saint Gregory Nazianzen, +390)
SOLEMNITY OF THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD BENEDICT XVI ANGELUS St Peter’s Square Sunday, 13 January 2008 Dear Brothers and Sisters, With today’s Feast of Jesus’ Baptism the liturgical Season of Christmas concludes. The Child, who the Magi from the East came to adore at Bethlehem offering their symbolic gifts, we now find an adult, at[…]
I agree with the good Doctor’s diagnosis, but would demur with his prognosis. The rise of a totalitarian regime, based on our biometric data and submission to dubious health protocols, signals a diminution of freedom and, like the merry band of rebels in the trash compactor of the Death Star in the first Star Wars[…]
