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
A blessed memorial of King Saint Louis IX (+1270), on whom I hope to post a few words, as this is the anniversary of my baptism, an event, as either Pope John Paul or Benedict pointed out at one point, more significant than one’s birth, the whole physical versus spiritual regeneration, grace building on nature,[…]
For all shall come to nothing that proceeds not from God. The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis In the beginning, the Lord God instructed Man to go forth and multiply. And He meant it! Going forth and increasing was God’s primary natural law – the law of life itself begetting life. God also said that He made[…]
Saint Rose of Lima (+1617) was a consecrated virgin, and the first native-born canonized saint of the Americas. She was renowned during her lifetime for her generosity and charity, flowing from a life of self-denial and asceticism and prayer. Although beautiful and desired, she from the earliest age renounced any thought of marriage, cutting her[…]
Back in June of this year, I wrote a piece on the travails of Trinity Western University, and how they had been refused accreditation for a law degree based on their ‘covenant policy’, to which all students must agree, that they will refrain from sexual activity except that within a lawful marriage (that is, between[…]
A blessed memorial of the Queenship of Mary, a feast formally instituted by Pope Pius XII on October 11, 1954, in his encyclical Ad Coeli Reginam, four years after his own proclamation (Munifecentissimus Deus, Nov. 1, 1950) of the Assumption of Mary into heaven, body and soul, and one hundred years after his predecssor’s, Pius[…]
At the climax of Luke’s passion narrative, we see Jesus hanging between two criminals. One of the criminals mocks Jesus, but the other responds, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man[…]
We should pray today to Pope Saint Pius X (1835-1914) for all the woes we are currently facing in the Church. He too was Pope during the first years of a new century, filled with its own travails, not least the rise of modernism in theology, what Pius called the ‘synthesis of all heresies’, undermining[…]
In 2014 there was an incident in Colorado that would jolt the sensibilities of many older Americans. At one school district, students organized to protest a proposal to increase in the curriculum a patriotic awareness of American history (a recent survey indicates 40% of the public could not name one of the five civil rights[…]
I had this romantic notion on the pilgrimage of sailing away from my native land, watching the ‘white cliffs of Dover’ recede into the distance, so planned to catch the ferry between the mediaeval port town on the south coast of England and the French port-town of Calais. After leaving Canterbury on the earliest train,[…]
In light of the apparent scandals washing over the Church, readers should peruse and ponder this critical assessment of the recent Pennsylvania Report, which seems, from the objective analysis of Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic Civil Rights League, to be a biased and even malicious piece of work. Yet many Catholics are jumping on[…]
