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
Beautiful bonnie Margaret of Scotland (+1093) was the devoted wife of Malcom III, king of the nation to which she fled as a fetching young royal English lass. Her family had been exiled from England, and Margaret was born and raised in a very pious Catholic environment in Hungary, of all places, a nation now[…]
If the reader wants a significant moment in the history of the Church in America, ponder the insouciant non-reaction from the assembled bishops to the intervention by the exiled Bishop Strickland, pointing out the scandal like a quiet John the Baptist, of a man in an open homosexual ‘marriage’ being confirmed in the Catholic Church,[…]
We live in an unreal world, which is to say, one unhinged from the truth. One way to know what is right, is to know what’s wrong, the via negativa, if you will. First, a man – which is to say, an adult biological male, for one must clarify such things nowadays – has entered[…]
Saint Albert of Cologne (1200-1280), whose life spans what William Walsh called the ‘greatest of centuries’ was given the title ‘the Great’, even before his death. Scholar, Dominican, bishop, scientist, and Doctor of the Church, he was considered the most learned man of his age, with an encyclopedic knowledge of just about everything under the[…]
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, 24 March 2010 Saint Albert the Great Dear Brothers and Sisters, One of the great masters of medieval theology is St Albert the Great. The title “Great”, (Magnus), with which he has passed into history indicates the vastness and depth of his teaching, which he combined with[…]
Above all one should accept everything, in general and individually, in oneself or in others, agreeable or disagreeable, with a prompt and confident spirit, as coming from the hand of his infallible Providence or the order he has arranged. (Saint Albert the Great, +1280)
Munificentissimus Deus is the title of Pope Pius XII’s Apostolic Constitution declaring that Our Lady was assumed body and soul into heaven. In English, the ‘most munificent God’, which is to say, a God who give presents and gifts, who rewards us far beyond our desserts. To choose a Jewish maiden, and exalt her as[…]
November 14th marks the memorial of Saint Lawrence O’Toole (Lorcán Ua Tuathail, in the original Gaelic, 1125 – 1180). Lawrence was an Irish monk, abbot and, eventually, Archbishop of Dublin, helping to further establish the Church at the dawn of the high Middle Ages in Ireland, as united with the Pope – the era of[…]
Saint Stanislaus Kostka – who died in 1568 just a few months shy of his eighteenth birthday – is one of the most popular saints in Poland. His short life demonstrates two primary lessons: That much can be done in little time, and that whatever time we are given here on earth, it’s all given[…]
Please God I will give my life for the holy union, for the supremacy of Peter and of the Holy Father, his successor… Lord, grant me the grace to shed my blood for the unity of the church and in behalf of obedience to the Holy See (Saint Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr, +1623)
