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
The newly-minted – or should I say, newly chrismed – Father Lukas Casta was ordained a priest for the diocese of Pembroke today, the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, in a beautiful ceremony and a full cathedra. We give great thanks to God, and congratulations to him and his family. Father Lukas is an[…]
There is one day for the passion of two apostles. But these two also were as one; although they suffered on different days, they were as one. Peter went first, Paul followed. We are celebrating a feast day, consecrated for us by the blood of the apostles. Let us love their faith, their lives, their[…]
The doctrine of papal infallibility was dogmatically defined in the First Vatican Council’s document Pastor Aeternus in 1870. Of course, this gift of the papal office has its origins in the words of Jesus to St. Peter: “And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church,[…]
Do politics still mean something? I suppose they mean something, but what exactly, is dubious. We’re a long, long way from what Aristotle meant by politics in his eponymous book. Far less do modern political debates mean anything – kabuki theatre, at the best of times, which these are not. What happens when the two[…]
Because of his boundless love, Jesus became what we are that he might make us to be what he is. (Saint Irenaeus of Lyons, +202)
Saint Irenaeus (+202 A.D.), bishop of Lugdunum – now Lyons – in the second century of the Church’s existence, a disciple of the martyr Saint Polycarp, who was in turn a disciple of Saint John the Apostle, is himself not only one of the clearest links to apostolic Tradition, but his writings and thoughts form[…]
Indeed the mystery of Christ runs the risk of being disbelieved precisely because it is so incredibly wonderful (Saint Cyril of Alexandria, +444)
The CBC has got to go, a billion dollar state-funded propaganda machine, with the worst of it what is has done and is doing to children. Canadian Broadcast Corporation? More like Children’s Brainwashing Cult. Exhibit A: “Are You a Boy or a Girl”? Well, the answer, like wave-particle duality, is apparently both, and neither, As[…]
The subversive doctrines of atheistic communism and socialism have infected nations, institutions, media, education, and souls, throughout the world. Make no mistake, as Pius XI declared in Divini Redemptoris (1937) that communism and socialism are by their very nature not only atheistic, but anti-God, and anti-Church, indeed, the very religions of anti-Christ. It is in[…]
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, 3 October 2007 Saint Cyril of Alexandria Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today too, continuing our journey following the traces left by the Fathers of the Church, we meet an important figure: St Cyril of Alexandria. Linked to the Christological controversy which led to the Council of Ephesus[…]
