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
I don’t know about you, but I’m already tired of ‘Christmas’. Of course, I am not referring to the real Christmas—the birth of Jesus—but what goes by the name of Christmas in the stores and on television and the internet. I’ve had my fill of Rudolf and Frosty, and even of Santa Claus coming to[…]
There are two primary things that totalitarian regimes seek to control, and whose take-over are themselves a sign of creeping totalitarianism in any society: The first is education, and the younger they get access to our minds, the better. The second is the media, newspapers and radio, and, now the vast ethereal space known as[…]
One is never sure what to believe from the endless avalanche of stories from the main-stream media. A few weeks ago the migrant caravan was described like something out of an apocalyptic dystopia – or to go back in time, perhaps an image from Exodus – thousands of men, women and children, trudging over a[…]
Everyone here knows that Advent is the season of waiting. As the readings for the first Sunday indicate, the fundamental characteristic of this time in the Church year is an expression of our longing for the second coming of Christ; and we also, in imagination, place ourselves in the period of preparation for the birth[…]
A propos of nothing, something grabbed my attention the other night, causing me to revisit a phenomenon that has long since disappeared from the public radar. It was one of those public service documentaries, the sort we haven’t seen in decades. Titled Perversion for Profit and made in 1965, it appeared on TCM. All about[…]
I come from the Holy Lands of Ontario. These are the small towns in which the Irish settled over the 19th century, and built imposing Catholic churches that became a centrepiece for the community. The phrase “the Holy Lands of Ontario” was coined by Edward Jackman. O. P., in an essay in the 1988 collection[…]
Is it the canary in the coal-mine, or the bull in an economic china shop? The closure of the Oshawa GM manufacturing plant – which has been making cars since just after the Second World War in 1953 – will put nearly 3000 people out of high-paying work, all them soon to be pounding the[…]
As we approach the end of the liturgical year, the readings at Mass once again turn to the end of this world and the second coming of Christ. Jesus says, “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be[…]
The biblical texts used at Mass towards the end of the liturgical year are certainly dramatic—with stars falling from heaven and the like—and, it must be said, confusing. Their obscurity has produced a myriad of interpretations, most notably among those people who like to predict the end of the world (which seems to be always[…]
When once a certain class of people has been placed by temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. —Simone Weil To the great sweeps of history, there is always a witness with eyes and a heart committed to the truth,[…]
