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
Jesus provides us with a motive for acting, viz., the love of God, which in practical terms produces a love of our neighbours. The behaviour of someone whose decisions come from such love will be different from those who act out of self-interest. Consider businesses for instance. Where love is the activating principle, the business[…]
The recent ban in the province of Quebec on the niqab, the Islamic face-covering, when receiving ‘public services’ (reserved, of course, only for females) has raised a number of questions. Is the State interfering in religious freedom? Should Muslims, and Muslim women in particular, have the right to cover their face? (The underlying and, for[…]
“My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?” (Matthew 22:12) I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. (Revelation 21:2) The wedding industry is a lucrative billion-dollar industry. Mention the word “wedding”[…]
Sainte Marguerite D’Youville (1701-1771. Feast, October 16th) I have to laugh when they call me a dangerous woman; A woman of ill-repute; a drunken whore. It’s true that my step-father was merely a commoner, And my husband, bless his soul, was little more Than a profligate philanderer who made money By selling liquor to the[…]
I am known by many names like Beelzebul, Mephistopheles, or Satan. When I was created, God called me Lucifer, but I prefer–Prince of Darkness. He literally fired me before the Big Bang for my arrogance, selfishness, and disobedience and banished me forever to Earth after it came into existence. For this reason, I detest God[…]
Charles E. Rice (1931-2015), a Thomist philosopher and professor of law at Notre Dame University, was a consistent conservative on matters political and theological. In 1993 he wrote a book that, if it had been published in 1963, might have had greater impact on stemming the rising tide of moral relativism and the nearly total[…]
(On this Thanksgiving morning, you might enjoy this wonderful poem from a Canadian mother, on the philosophy, nay, the very theology, of washing dishes, a noble act filled with spiritual significance. I do not own a dishwasher, and hope never to. So on with the scrubbing, and a joyful Thanksgiving to all! Gratias Deo![…]
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” – Supreme Court decision Buck vs. Bell Carrie Buck was 17 when she was forced to enter the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded. Records indicate Carrie received average grades in elementary school, but she was admitted to the Colony on the grounds of feeblemindedness and[…]
I strongly encourage anyone who is discouraged or depressed to read the third chapter of the book of Tobit. In this passage, two people who are righteous, devout and courageous begged for death—not because of any kind of material hardship or physical persecution, but because of the undeserved insults and reproaches of those closest[…]
I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. (Genesis 3:16) Ironically, although technological advances have made it possible for the act of parturition (childbirth) itself to be relatively painless, no one can deny that the process of rearing children to be good and responsible members of society will contain[…]
