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
Those who do not know the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana This, more than anything else, is what I have realized in the past year and a half since October 7th, 2023. As a Catholic convert from a Jewish background and as an Israeli-Canadian, the complicated history of antisemitism and the[…]
Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw Him go into heaven (Acts 1:11). Our Lord’s Ascension which we celebrate today in the Church universal is both a historical and transcendent event (Catechism[…]
“If I am a sinner and deny sin, there is no forgiveness. The denial of sin is the unforgivable sin.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen Once upon a time in every civilized society people wanted to keep their dirty little secrets from being found out. What point is there in shouting what should be one’s shame from[…]
(Here is Pope Saint John Paul II’s first homily for the feast of the Visitation, to close off his first Marian month as Pope, in 1979. It was a different era, but his words speak to our time – John Paul was the the Pope chosen to lead us into the third millennium, and to[…]
HOMILY OF POPE JOHN PAUL II TO COMMEMORATE THE SERVANT OF GOD PAUL VI Thursday, 6 August 1998 The memory of my venerable Predecessor, the Servant of God Paul VI who died here in Castel Gandolfo some 20 years ago, lives on throughout the Church. Time has not weakened his remembrance; on the contrary, the[…]
Recently, Catholic Insight posted a thoughtful note from contributor Carl Sundell on the essential questions we should be prepared to answer about our faith. This list of questions was likely meant to inspire readers to find and research their own answers to these questions. There are over 2,000 years of resources one could sift through[…]
The March for Life on May 8 2025 was attended by fewer than the 20,000 or so participants of previous Marches – and by some counts much fewer, a number which was very much reduced from pre-Covid years. Still the spirit was strong, and zeal for the cause of life shone forth. This was certainly[…]
(At the very beginning of his pontificate, Pope Saint John Paul II made a pilgrimage to the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella, commonly called the ‘Chiesa Nuova’, which was constructed under the auspices of Saint Philip Neri in founding the Oratory, and still stands as the Oratory’s original and principal church. Here is the[…]
‘You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father’ (Jn. 15:14-15). We are[…]
According to Saint Paul, “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22) And there is this from St. Augustine, “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” Patience might be defined as the encountering of the small before the large.[…]
