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
“…a new vision that overturns established practices.” – Synod on Synodality The words above may well come back to haunt the Church. This past week in Rome the Vatican concluded years of gatherings by bishops, clergy and laity initiated by Pope Francis. The hierarchy within the Catholic Church calls it a ‘process’ – more specifically[…]
On this All Souls’ Day, here are two Requiems, which commemorate the dead with beauty and transcendence, and may accompany our prayers this day. The first is Mozart’s famous rendition, which he left incomplete on his death on December 5th, 1791, and completed by his disciple, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, in 1792, who did such a[…]
Google’s motto – replete with irony – was ‘don’t be evil’. They dropped that in 2018, although it’s still apparently somewhere in their code of conduct. A headline recently said something rather unsettling, that the company has been collecting everyone’s most personal data for the past 20 years – troves and troves of it –[…]
In the Old Testament book of Genesis God reveals that He has made us in His image and likeness (Genesis 1:26). That being so, no image of God can be complete if it does not reflect to some degree the image of a human person. While the Person of God as Father was depicted in[…]
Fr. Richard Rohr’s The Universal Christ is a popular spiritual book today. This New York Times Bestseller is rated highly in Amazon’s Religious Ethics category and has 4.7/5 stars from over five thousand global reviewers on Amazon.ca. Bono and Melinda Gates have praised the book, and it can be found on the shelves of many[…]
Today, Monday 4 November 2024, as we are celebrating the feast of St Charles Borromeo, one instinctively moves my heart, the receptivity and the mission of this great man of God and servant the Church. To follow Hans Urs von Balthasar’s schema of how saints are made, in this great, able, practical and humble holy[…]
We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: “I will pray, and then I will understand.” This is the way we can easily overcome the countless difficulties we have to face day after day, which, after all, are part of our work. In meditation we find the strength to bring[…]
A recent reflection in First Things warns against sacralising politics (or politicizing the sacred), and rightly so. As the prophet Jeremiah warns: cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the LORD (17:5). Yet, I may be permitted to offer some further distinction required, when the author writes: Of the many things Christians[…]
The term ‘fascism’ gets a lot of traction in politics, even if few of us could strictly define it. The etymology derives from the ‘fasces’ of the ancient Romans, a bundle of wooden rods, with an axe in the middle,, the symbol of their military might. What the term does seem to imply in the[…]
While we are celebrating the Solemnity of All Saints it is important to appreciate the litany of the Saints. Personally speaking whenever it happens to me to listen to it I really become encouraged and also feel its supportive power. We can classify the Litany of the Saints as one of the many valid and[…]
