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 the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.” Exodus 20:5 A recent study by a major health insurance provider has found that the number of Americans diagnosed with severe depression has jumped by[…]
“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.” 2 Timothy[…]
Although they knew God they did not honour him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanging the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.[…]
Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001) was a British analytic philosopher who early in life met and was deeply influenced by the great Austrian logician and linguist Ludwig Wittgenstein. Her most original contribution to philosophy is the monograph Intention, a study of reason as applied to human actions. The American analytic philosopher Donald Davidson described Intention as “the[…]
As the credits after the film roll by, another army appears—of technicians, musicians, stunt men, cinematographers in England, France, Holland and the United States—active behind the scenes in order to capture on the screen the anguish of English and French soldiers hoping against hope to escape from the coast of France across the Channel to[…]
“All this Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed he said nothing to them without a parable.”[1] Some time ago an American missionary priest—we’ll call him Father Jim—was sent to a village in Nicaragua. He was appalled at the poverty and inertia of people whose spirit had been crushed by a negligent and oppressive[…]
“Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.” Lucifer in John Milton’s Paradise Lost On June 7, Kathleen Wynne will be held accountable for the precipitous decline of Ontario since her Liberal Party took power under Dalton McGuinty in 2003. How unpopular is Wynne? Crushingly so, admits the Toronto Star. Not just in the polls, but at[…]
The fifty days between Easter and Pentecost are devoted to meditation on the mystery of the resurrection, which is the foundation of Christianity. Just how much that is so came home to me when I was called upon recently to give an address on the faith of the apostolic Church. To begin with, I realized[…]
Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was an eminent author whose many diverse talents as a novelist, short story writer, and essayist were celebrated in Bradley J. Birzer’s superb biography, Russell Kirk: American Conservative. In his youth, Kirk’s intellectual development as a conservative was mainly influenced by the writings of Edmund Burke, Irving Babbitt, Paul Elmer More, Christopher[…]
“I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. John 11: 25-6. Easter 2018. Plaster may be falling on worshippers at St.Peter’s in Rome and Pope Francis may or may not have denied the existence of Hell[…]
