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
Disinformation, noun: false information spread deliberately and often covertly (by planting rumours) to deceive in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth. The English word disinformation is a borrowed translation of the Russian dezinformatsiya, derived from the title of a KGB black propaganda department. Josef Stalin coined the term, giving it a French-sounding name to claim it had a[…]
A young mother lightly remonstrated with me about my diatribe on Women’s Day, claiming that the post did not emphasize enough the positive and affirmative. As a Scotch-Irish pessimist, I tended to agree, so, at the same mother’s suggestion, I am posting in supplement this excerpt from the closing address of Pope Saint Paul VI[…]
“When the Son of man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). The following random reflections on atheism address what many think has become the central issue of our day: the radical decline of faith throughout the world dramatically announced by the philosopher Nietzsche at the dawn of the twentieth century, when[…]
Eighth Sunday Per Annum (C) March 3, 2019. No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; for each tree is known by its own fruit (Lk. 6:43-44). ⧾ Our Gospel reading today is a continuation of last Sunday’s reading and again by means of concrete examples Our Lord[…]
No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished. He was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion it became a thing such as even Dante could not[…]
“A sentimentalist is one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.” Oscar Wilde Stuffed animals, flickering candles, cello-wrapped flowers, unfocussed anguish and tears. What’s all this really about? I’m referring to that contemporary and now commonplace phenomenon triggered by yet another violent outrage in yet another unsuspecting community where entire[…]
Our Gospel reading today is a continuation of last Sunday’s reading. You recall that in the beatitudes Our Lord invites us to tread the path that He became for us, and through His own example we are strengthened and encouraged to live as He did. Today Our Lord explains by means of concrete examples how[…]
I’ve been hearing confessions, now, for over fifty years, and I have noticed that there is one sin that comes up more than any other; it’s connected to today’s Gospel, about loving your enemy, “turning the other cheek.” The penitent will say something like this: I know that I should forgive everyone, but I there[…]
Commemorating a simpler time in the nascent Church, today is the memorial of Saint Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, and a disciple of Saint John the Beloved himself. The contemporary and eyewitness, as well as endearing and all-too-real, account of his martyrdom in 155 A.D. provides a window into the early Church, and the persecution of[…]
In a 2011 article, Father Brian Mullady ponders the question of homosexuality in the priesthood, a theme abounding everywhere, except where it might most be expected – namely, the synod on sex abuse currently underway in Rome. We invite the reader to ponder these words Father Mullady quotes from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s memoir of[…]
