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
This 13th day of October marks the anniversary final apparition of Our Lady at Fatima in the fateful year of 1917, to the three seers Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia. The Virgin appeared as the Sorrowful Mother and Our Lady of Mount Carmel, along with Saint Joseph and the Christ child, Who blessed the earth. Fatima[…]
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. (Pope Saint John XXIII, +1963)
Today marks the anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, now more than six decades back to those heady days of the early sixties, the future, to many eyes, full of promise and hope, throwing off the shackles of their own ancien regime, the bourgeois suburbia of the post-war era giving way to[…]
Schadenfreude is one of those double-barreled German words that signifies more than its literal meaning. Like schweinehund – pig-dog – which brings to mind a whole panoply of images, schadenfreude – sorrow-joy – implies taking pleasant satisfaction at the misery of another, especially when they fully deserve it. One may think of nemesis in action.[…]
Today, October 9th, marks sixty-seven years since the death of Pope Pius XII, lovingly known as the Pastor Angelicus throughout his pontificate which spanned nearly two decades. The eighty-fifth anniversary of his election as pope (which took place on his sixty-third birthday in 1939) occurred last year. 2024 also saw the twenty-fifth anniversary of Benedict[…]
“Faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” James 2:14-17 This is the remarkable story of a man who reached out to an old friend in need. What was this need? A job? Help with some house or landscaping project? Money? Advice on relationships, vacations, cars? Sometimes when we’re younger, reaching out[…]
Besides the great John Henry Newman, we also commemorate two other saints on this day: Saint Denis, patron of Paris, was the first bishop of what would later be called the ‘city of lights’, and he himself was one of her greatest lights. Denis – in Latin, Dionysius – was likely martyred in the mid-third[…]
For 30, 40, 50 years I have resisted to the best of my powers the spirit of liberalism in religion… Liberalism in religion is the doctrine that there is no positive truth in religion, but that one creed is as good as another, and this is the teaching which is gaining substance and force daily[…]
MASS WITH THE BEATIFICATION OF VENERABLE CARDINAL JOHN HENRY NEWMAN HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI Cofton Park of Rednal – Birmingham Sunday, 19 September 2010 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, This day that has brought us together here in Birmingham is a most auspicious one. In the first place, it is the Lord’s[…]
Although John Henry Cardinal Newman died on August 11th, in 1890, the Church commemorates him on this October 9th. For it was on this day in 1845 that the former Anglican minister, halfway through his earthly journey, finally convinced of the truth, converted to the fullness of the Faith and was received into the Church[…]
