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
The Professor loved to laugh. Social propriety piqued him. Practiced in the Grand Art of Comedy, he was an untiring scoffer; an assailant on the dismal. He knew the Acacacademy feared scandal and that they took him for a fool. Didn’t care. He made a little joke just the same. The Fool (for[…]
At what point do we here in Ontario stop calling Catholic schools, Catholic? A name, says the Catechism, expresses a person’s essence. And what applies to persons applies also, by extension, to societies, schools, presidents, prime ministers… My local area has made international news of late, when just a Catholic – we will use the[…]
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. (Gen 3:19) You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you. (Song 4:7) Isn’t it ironic that, despite all[…]
Part III (b) – O Equity! [Diversity and Inclusivity have been introduced earlier. The third person of the unholy triad Equity is the most complex and egregious among them. This essay considers Equity as a concept in its origin and thereafter, as it drew in several ideas that have permeated, conjugated with, enshrouded, enlightened, negated[…]
In honour of the new archbishop-elect to Canada’s largest diocese, for our musical selection this week, we offer two version of the great motet Ecce Sacerdos Magnus – Behold the Great High Priest. The first by Anton Bruckner, composed in 1885 for the centenary of the founding of the diocese of Linz – even if[…]
Pope Francis has appointed a new archbishop for Toronto, Auxiliary Bishop Frank Leo, after accepting the resignation of Thomas Cardinal Collins (Bishops are required to submit a resignation letter to the Pope on their 75th birthday, and the Pope is free to decide whether or not to accept the resignation; there is often some dialogue[…]
On this feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, it would be beneficial to remind ourselves of the papal messages which have been given to us through this worldly known Shrine. I want to start with that given to us by Pope St John Paul II in 2004, from the homily he preached on Sunday 15[…]
If you choose, you can keep the commandments, and they will save you… [God] has not commanded anyone to be wicked, and He has not given anyone permission to sin (Sir. 15:15, 20). The Gospel of St. Matthew presents Our Lord as the new Moses or lawgiver who explains the precepts of the Old Law[…]
There is a fin de siècle feel in the air, akin to what people must have felt in 1914 on eve of the Great War – which was meant to end all wars. As Europe descended into the madness of that maelstrom, Cardinal Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa was elected Pope, taking the name[…]
I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them. I shall do everything for Heaven, my true home. There I shall find my Mother in all the splendor of her glory. I shall delight with her in the joy of[…]
