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
Saint Bernard of Corleone (1605 – 1667) could be the patron saint of the Mafia, and not just because he hails from the same region as the fictional crime family of Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel, and Francis Coppola’s subsequent film series. What I mean by that is that, like the Mafioso, Bernard – whose original[…]
Excess deaths continue across the world and the media and the medical establishment are mute – or is that muzzled? We were previously told that ‘one death was too many’ – now there’s, what, too many? To paraphrase Stalin, one death is a tragedy, a million a statistic. But, in reality, a million, is a[…]
No matter how sinful one may have been, if he has devotion to Mary, it is impossible that he be lost. (Saint Hilary of Poitiers, +367)
Pope Hyginus, whose feast is today, January 11th, reigned from 138 to his death in 142 – the ninth to hold the papal throne. Like most of the early Pontiffs, we know little about his life. According to what accounts we do have, it was Hyginus who instituted the tradition of Godparents at baptism, who[…]
We won’t talk about the resurfaced book by Cardinal Fernandez, like some antedeluvian and postlapsarian creature out of the black lagoon. The current head of what is now known as the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has already embarrassed himself with his treatise on kissing for teens – bad enough – but the[…]
Among the composers of Renaissance England, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd are easily the best known, but they are not the only composers to emerge from Our Lady’s Dowry. Among the older generation, Robert Fayrfax (1464-1521) and John Taverner (c.1495-1545) are more familiar, but one master of this style remains neglected. Nicholas Ludford was born[…]
Jesus said, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed.” Luke 12:15 Capitalism may simply be defined as the economic system that emphasizes the production of profits, and the investment of those profits (capital) into new business ventures. Capitalism was practiced in the 19th century without fear of being opposed or regulated[…]
Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden through what is constantly perceived. Therefore, the ardent lover of beauty, although receiving what is always visible as an image of what he desires, yet longs to be filled with the very stamp[…]
For the grace of God has appeared for the salvation of all men, training us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions, and to live sober, upright and godly lives in this world, awaiting our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ (Tit. 2:11-13). This passage from St.[…]
On this day in 1835, President Andrew Jackson proudly announced that, with his austere economic policies, the debt of the United States had been reduced – for the first and last time in history – to zero. Paradoxically this caused an economic crisis, for it seems a little borrowing in a nation is a good[…]
