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
To a scientist—an honest one—the term disruptive is one of approbation. It means something’s been discovered or invented that shakes the continuously ossifying framework of accepted knowledge and possibly dislodges something new. There’s even a system for quantifying how disruptive your idea might prove to be: the CD (consolidation-or-destabilization) Index, developed by Dr.s Funk and[…]
I am not the Christ; I have been sent before him to prepare his way. He must increase, and I must decrease. (Saint John the Baptist)
As we celebrate the great feast of this eminent Father and Doctor of the Church, one thing comes straight into my heart and mind: Augustine was really a great wanderer of let God find Him and saved him At first Augustine thought that he might find his deep longing of the heart in materialism. He[…]
Late have I loved you, O Beauty, ever ancient, ever new – late have I loved you! (Saint Augustine, +430)
Today, the entire Church celebrates the beautiful memorial of St Monica, the Mother of St Augustine. Since, a mother can often be best described by her son, we turn to Saint Augustine, who offers us a very vivid description of God’s greatness in his mother Monica. She had to face two great challenges in her[…]
And now thou didst ‘stretch forth thy hand from above’ and didst draw up my soul out of that profound darkness, because my mother, thy faithful one, wept to thee on my behalf more than mothers are accustomed to weep for the bodily deaths of their children … And thou didst hear her, O Lord[…]
BENEDICT XVI ANGELUS Courtyard of the Papal Summer Residence, Castel Gandolfo Sunday, 30 August 2009 (Video) Dear Brothers and Sisters, Three days ago, on 27 August, we celebrated the liturgical Memorial of St Monica, Mother of St Augustine, considered the model and patroness of Christian mothers. We are provided with a considerable amount of information[…]
Pope Zephyrinus, whose feast is traditionally celebrated on August 26th, governed the Church for 18 years at the end of the third century (199 – 217), during the persecution of Emperor Septimus Severus. In accord with Saint Paul’s warning to the Corinthians that heresies are sure to come (11:19), heresies did indeed abound from the[…]
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. (Hilaire Belloc, +1953)
According to the Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain in his 1952 book The Range of Reason, there are Christians who, to all intents and purposes, think and behave more like atheists than Christians. These are people who call themselves Christian, but by their actions show that they do not really believe what they say they believe.[…]
