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
War is always a bad business, even in the most just of them, the criteria for which the current conflagration does not seem fit. Whatever one’s view, as one of the worst of evils to afflict Man – along with plagues and, say, giant asteroids – we should strive to keep wars as brief as[…]
As of this writing, I have 53 days until I am confirmed into the Catholic Church. An astonishing thing for many reasons. Mainly because I never thought there would be a day I would become a “heretic” as I formerly believed – but there are much more nuanced reasons than that. I have learned a[…]
The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love. (Saint Gregory the Great, +604)
Should it please the reader to explore the Church’s rich repository of Latin poetry, I shall gladly introduce you. Surely, it is a noble study which you undertake, and I hope to direct your desire to profitably see its fulfillment. Our holy Mother, the Church, possesses an inexhaustible library of sacred verses for our ædification[…]
(The Liberals are fast-tracking Bill C-9 through parliament, which will make illegal ‘hate speech’, vaguely defined, and punishable by two years to life imprisonment. Specifically, the new bill seeks to remove ‘religious exemption’ from legitimate criticism of the nefarious, or at least controversial, beliefs and practices of certain ‘protected groups’. Our Canadian bishops, not often[…]
We would remiss on this March 10th if we didn’t mention the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, a group of elite Roman legionaries – called the Fulminata (‘the ligthning’ regiment) – who en masse professed Christianity, and were condemned to death. This was under the persecution of Emperor Licinius in the east. He would meet his[…]
Bishop Marian Eleganti, auxiliary emeritus of Chur, Switzerland, through which I happened to pilgrimage last summer, sums up the irregular situation of the SSPX. His thoughts bear pondering: Firstly, acting with full autonomy without papal mandate or confirmed mission; secondly, operating with bishops not in union with the Pope and the episcopal college; thirdly, maintaining[…]
John Ogilvie was born in 1579, just as the Protestant ‘reformation’ was taking hold in Britain, including his native land of Scotland, led by the fiery apostate priest John Knox. Catholicism would soon be all-but wiped out in dear Alba, signified by the death of our saint. Although raised in his first formative years by[…]
There’s so much talk in the news right now about how we can unite as a region at a time when we’re more divided than ever. Often, we turn to policy to answer this question. But it’s so much bigger than that. And while the problem is big, I believe it’s actually the little things[…]
Bishop Erik Varden, OCSO, a Cistercian Trappist, converted to Catholicism in 2002, and, after years of study at Cambridge and Rome – he is an expert in Syriac – was ordained to the priesthood on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in 2011, and a decade later, was consecrated bishop of Trondheim, Norway[…]
