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
Here is some food for thought as further proof of the socialist dysfunctionality of Canada under Justin Trudeau, even if, we must admit, the bloating of the wealth-consuming public sector, at the expense of the wealth-producing private sector, predates his reckless insouciance, all the way back to the Trudeau Sr. And the precarious imbalance is[…]
Nobody can deny that there has to be a moral consensus about what is right and what is wrong in order to have a coherent moral society. The question nobody has been able to answer to most people’s satisfaction is: How do you craft an obligatory morality that all may consent to without ascribing the[…]
A nd be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. (Saint Paul, Romans 12:2)
So the DDF – the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the CDF, and before that, the SCDF, the ‘S’ standing for ‘Sacred’ and, boy, do I long for those bygone days – under the tutelage of Cardinal Victor ‘Tucho’ Fernandez, has just done what many feared they might, approving the blessing of[…]
(There are many a priori reasons why abortion is wrong, the primary one being that it snuffs out the life of the unborn child. The same with contraception, which vitiates the integrity of the marital act. Both are grave sins, crying out to God. But both also have deleterious a posteriori health consequences for mothers[…]
Saint Anthony of Egypt or, as he is simply known in the history of monasticism, Anthony the Great, was born in Coma in Lower Egypt, Anthony heard the call to leave everything behind to give himself to God. The words of Jesus Matthew 19:21, namely: If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess[…]
He who knows how to forgive prepares for himself many graces from God. As often as I look upon the cross, so often will I forgive with all my heart (St. Faustina, +1938)
Can we forgive someone who doesn’t accept our forgiveness? Or someone who doesn’t think he needs it? There was a group of us discussing this question recently, in reference to all that has happened in the past few years, as people try to re-forge old friendships. But the question goes far beyond all that, into[…]
Saint Ita was an early Irish nun, Íte ingen Chinn Fhalad in Gaelic (+ ca. 480 – 577). Descended from royalty (the King of Fara was an ancestor), she was baptized not long after the missionary work of Saint Patrick had evangelized good old Erin’s Isle and was known for her steadfast virtue. I did[…]
Today’s reading from Samuel, telling the origin story of our biblical hero, ends with the words of the prophet, ‘speak, Lord, for thy servant is listening‘. Samuel’s name in Hebrew, given to him by his mother Hannah, is derived from the verb ‘to listen’. Such is the task of a prophet, to hear the word[…]
