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
It sounds like a parody in a tragic comedy, like an even more-inverted Monty Python come full circle: Attendees at the recent Demo(n)cratic National Convention were offered ‘free abortions and vasectomies‘: Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which operates in parts of Missouri and Illinois, will park its mobile health clinic near the DNC on Aug. 19[…]
There is no better way to solve the problem of evil than by starting with a definition of what evil is, or is not. According to the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, the universe itself is fundamentally evil. He said that those who wish to escape this evil are justified in committing suicide. For Schopenhauer evil[…]
Recently I felt really blessed going back to the catechesis Pope Benedict XVI gave on St Bernard of Clairvaux on Wednesday 21 October 2009. His first statement of that instructive and inspiring catechesis ran the following:Â Today I would like to talk about St Bernard of Clairvaux, called “the last of the Fathers” of the Church[…]
Those of sane mind know that D.E.I. is a problem, especially as mandated by faceless bureaucracies, cloaked in a veneer of goodness. After all, diversity, equality and inclusivity seem admirable, or at least not morally objectionable. The problem, of course, is that life is about much more than these three analogues to the French revolutionaries’[…]
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love. (Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, +1153)
August 18th is the traditional feast of St Helen, mother of Emperor Constantine the Great, the Empress who found the Cross of Christ. In Malta we celebrate her feast at the parish Church of Birkirkara. When thinking about the life of St Helen what spontaneously comes into my heart and mind is the her role[…]
The early life of Saint Helena, or Helen, who is commemorated on this August 18th, is shrouded in legend, with some historical roots, as all legends have. Geoffrey of Wearmouth, the 11th century priest and historiographer (from whom we also get many of the tales of King Arthur) claims she was the daughter of the[…]
Sister Agnes Sasagawa, the visionary of Akita, has died, at the age of 93, and, fittingly, like Saint Hyacinth of whom we wrote today, on the Solemnity of the Assumption. Readers may recall the alleged visions of of Our Lady to Sister Agnes, at her convent in Akita, Japan, back in 1981 and 1982, with[…]
One would like to delve into the details of these statistics, and the strict definition of the various conditions, along with their etiologies, which are usually complex and multi-faceted, but on the surface, they are, to put it mildly, troubling. Half the population suffering from type-II diabetes? And 1 in 36 children with autism? If[…]
Therefore, breathe I a prayer for a moment, at this, the lone shrine of the past, Whose face was the sun of the ages, whose soul shall be light to the last; For man’s hope of high things never faileth, though visions and worships may fail, O Mary, thou blessed among women, great pureness and[…]
