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
Take a minute – quite literally – to peruse Seat of Wisdom‘s new promotional video. A Catholic liberal arts college, we offer a three-year baccalaureate, immersed in the tradition of the Church, and we are are the only university or college in Canada recommended by the Cardinal Newman Society in their Newman Guide. We will[…]
“If the Church were to be removed from the world, in a short time the world would end.” St. John Henry Newman Twenty years ago, I attended a UK press screening of The Barbarian Invasions, by Quebec director, Denys Arcand, who had brought his film to London. The film was a snapshot of Quebec, circa[…]
(Even in Canada, ahead of the curve into the descent into amorality in so many other ways, you at least still need a prescription from a medical professional to get the so-called ‘birth control pill’. But no longer in the United States under the ‘leadership’ of Biden – you can buy the dangerous drug as[…]
On this day, in 1917, Prime Minister Robert Borden – whose mustachioed visage is on the $100 bill – imposed an income tax on Canadians, varying from 4 -25% of one’s income, in large part to pay for the costs of the First World War into which our Dominion was drawn, the ‘war to end[…]
A man who prays lives out the mystery of existence, and a man who does not pray scarcely exists. (Saint Charbel Maklouf, +1898)
It is odd to find an explanation of a parable, given that its purpose is to tease the imagination, inviting the hearer to uncover its meaning. Consequently, to be effective a parable should have something mysterious about it, something to intrigue the audience, rather like the “unspeakable groanings” [ or “sighs too deep for words”[…]
The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man; the field is the world, and the good seed are the children of the kingdom (Mt. 13:37-38). Our Lord spoke in parables to fulfill what had been spoken through the Prophet Isaiah: I will open my mouth to speak in parables; I will[…]
On Saturday, July 22nd, the Church universally celebrated the feast of St Mary Magdalene. Personally speaking, this great woman is of great inspiration for me of what it means to be an apostle of Jesus. It was the Angelic Doctor, St Thomas Aquinas, who named her as “Apostle of the Apostles”, for the reason that[…]
A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb,[…]
How far are we from ‘normalizing’ pedophilia? Not far, methinks, as a March 2023 publication of of the International Commission of Jurists states: Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law. Hmm. ‘Domestically prescribed minimum age’. What does ‘domestically prescribed’[…]
