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
Today’s saint is not to be confused with the more famous Saint John of the Cross, the Carmelite mystic and doctor of the Church. Saint John Joseph of the Cross (1654 – 1739) was far less known, and he (and the other Saint John, we would presume) would rejoice in such. Carlo Gaetano Calosinto was[…]
Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College (SWC) in Barry’s Bay, Ontario, has been granted permission to offer a four-year Bachelor of Arts degree by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities of the Province of Ontario. In 2017, the Province gave the institution permission to use the name “College” and to grant a three-year Bachelor of[…]
“I believe that our descendants will tend more and more to be divided into only two parts, those leaving Christianity entirely and those entering into the bosom of the Roman Church.” (Democracy in America, 1835) Nearly two hundred years ago Alexis de Tocqueville, a traveling Frenchman, completely immersed himself in American culture for a considerable[…]
(During one of his pastoral visits to France, if memory serves, Pope John Paul II urged the ‘eldest daughter of the Church’ to preserve the gif of the Faith she had been given, to become what she really is. France is rejecting her heritage, and quickly becoming what she is not, and in no way[…]
Truly, truly, I say to you, every one who commits sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not continue in the house for ever; the son continues for ever. So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. (John 8:34-36)
The Gospel for this third Sunday of Lent, John 2:13-25, shows a side of Jesus we do not often get to see. Witnessing the abuse of the sacred space that was the temple in Jerusalem, his righteous indignation is aroused. He fashions a whip and uses it to clear out offenders, flips tables, and while[…]
There are lies, damned lies…and statistics. Here, Dr. John Campbell, in his understated, ironical manner, points out how the government in England is making the death rate ‘fall’, by counting deaths differently based on uninterpretable, mathematical, logarithmical, hieroglyphics. Behind the façade, however, people are still mysteriously dying in statistically significant numbers, and then some:
Readers may recall Demos, from two years ago, a clarion call for reform in the Church, from an anonymous cardinal – likely George Pell. Now, we have Demos, Part II, also penned anonymously, for reasons that he explains, not least the certainty of retribution. Read over his words, and see what you think: https://newdailycompass.com/en/a-profile-of-the-next-pope-writes-cardinal
Gall pechod mawr ddyfod trwy ddrws bychan – A great sin can enter through a small door (Welsh proverb)
As Dr. Alexander Lozano points out, the Supreme Court of Alabama has decreed that frozen embryos – and, by extensions, embryos in general – should be considered persons in law. This, after a suit against a fertility clinic, which due to lack of security, allowed a number of embryos to be accidentally destroyed – that[…]
