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
In a previous article of mine, Recognizing Baby Steps[1] a news article was reviewed where it was reported that a pregnant woman in the state of Texas was given a ticket for driving her car in the High Occupancy Vehicle Lane. According to the statute, two or more persons are required in the vehicle to[…]
I was pleasantly surprised that this essay came out of Harvard – a professor encouraging open dialogue on a number of ‘sensitive’ issues. That is what university is meant to do, a tradition all the way back to their founding in the scholastic dialectical method. As Saint Thomas does in the Summa, face your opponent’s[…]
Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all. (G.K. Chesterton)
Saint Porphyrius was an early 5th century bishop of Gaza, from 395 to 420, which makes him an a propos patron for that troubled region. That was back before Islam got its grip on the Middle East. Gaza was then predominantly pagan, which Porphyrius spent his energies extirpating. He called upon the power of the[…]
The great reason for this transfiguration was to remove the scandal of the cross from the hearts of his disciples, and to prevent the humiliation of his voluntary suffering from disturbing the faith of those who had witnessed the surpassing glory that lay concealed. (Pope Saint Leo the Great, + 461)
‘This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!’ (Mk. 9:7) On the second Sunday in Lent we always read the Gospel of the Transfiguration of Our Lord. We do so in order that our focus may be directed towards the glory of Easter and Our Lord’s victory over sin and death by His glorious[…]
You know it’s bad, and the jig may well be up, when both the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF, now the DDF), Cardinal Gerhard Müller, and the former head of the Congregation for Divine Worship (CDW, now DDW), Cardinal Robert Sarah, lambast – in somewhat measured and logical[…]
There used to be a custom in Hollywood to hide the face of Christ on film – see the scenes Spartacus and Ben-Hur. This was, likely, due to a sense of ‘modesty’, the virtue that refuses to unveil what should remain hidden, as the Catechism puts it. I suppose people did not want their prayer[…]
outrage: an act of violence or brutality; an act that violates accepted standards of behavior or taste; the anger and resentment aroused by injury or insult (Merriam-Webster) Whatever definition one wishes to use, there have been three ‘outrages’ of late in sacred spaces, signifying some breaking in of the world into the sanctuary: First, there[…]
Today, Tuesday 22 February 2022, Feast of the Chair of Peter, puts Peter’s Chair as the centre of our prayer. The Chair reminds us of the particular mission Jesus gave to Peter. Historically this Feast goes back to the 3rd century, extending back to the original cathedra of Peter. This is the privileged place from[…]
