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
Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622, was one of Josef Ratzinger’s favorite pieces of music, or at least so I recall reading once, even if the cardinal and sometime pope was a pianist. The concerto, in three movements, was composed in 1791, a few weeks before the great composer’s death, his last complete work (his[…]
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. (G.K. Chesterton, +1936)
Saint Raymond Nonnatus, who died on this day in 1240, was a Mercedarian priest, whose Order, as their name implies, was taskedwith ransoming Christian slaves from the Moors (that is, Muslims). We might consider that a controversial practice, as ironically incentivizing capturing more slaves to receive more in the way of reward, but in its[…]
