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 this day in 1917, the royal family of England, by order of King George V, changed their name from Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha to the simpler, and more English, ‘Windsor’, named after the castle and estates about twenty miles west of Charing Cross. The King discerned that the German-sounding moniker did not go over too well in[…]
Saint Alex – or Alexius – known as ‘the Beggar’ was a Christian in the early fourth-century, was the son of a Senator, Euphemian, and his wife, Aglae. Fearing the allure of the riches of the life intended for him, Alexius decided to renounce everything to follow Christ in poverty. He followed his parents’ wishes[…]
First Argument When skeptics complain bitterly about the so-called “Judaeo-Christian mythology,” one of their most frequent objection is to the incomprehensible cruelty of God as depicted in the story of Abraham and Isaac. What kind of a God is it, they ask, who would instruct the good man Abraham to offer up his son, a[…]
It was on this day in a Parisian summer in 1794 – one day after the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel – that sixteen female members of the Carmelite Order, located at Compiègne – one day after their patronal feast – lined up one by one in the Place de la Révolution (now more ironically[…]
