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
(From our archives, for this Thanksgiving Sunday) On this mountain the Lord of Hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food (Is 25:6). Throughout our nation in what we can claim as a truly North American tradition, Canadians are observing Thanksgiving Day. In the observance of what is essentially a harvest festival, we[…]
Born in Kyrgyzstan under Soviet repression, to intensely devout Catholic parents, the future Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider was essentially raised in the Catholic underground. His parents, who had been prisoners in the Gulag, would often travel dozens of kilometers under the cover of darkness to attend Mass. Had they been captured, the consequences would have[…]
I will not shrink from uttering my firm conviction, that it would be a gain to this country, were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion, than at present it shows itself to be.[1] Saint John Henry Newman Newman’s point in this startling statement is that superstition and religion[…]
(During this time of crisis, and on this day when we have asked to pray and fast for world peace, we thought we would re-post this piece by Father Scott Murray, on the benefits of the Rosary on this memorial. I did not realize that Leo XIII’s estimated ’88 encyclicals’ are the same number as[…]
Besides being the memorial of Saint Faustina Kowalska, on October 5th is also the commemoration of Blessed Bartolmeo Longo (1841 – 1926). Fitting, since ‘Blessed Bartolo’s life signifies more than many the infinite divine mercy of God, from a ‘Satanic priest’ and spiritualist to a saint and zealous apostle of the holy Rosary. We won’t[…]
On this Saturday October 5th, the Church celebrates the feast day of St Faustina Kowalska, one of great grace for me personally since I am currently attending the International Days of The Apostles of Divine Mercy, precisely from Friday 4 till Sunday 6 October at the Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Krakow Lagiewniki. In[…]
From a religious point of view, we need not worry about life throughout the universe, though Hollywood makes sure that we do as a cash venture. The Book of Genesis is silent on the matter. The account given there concerns only the Universe at large and Earth in particular. Science fiction concerning space travel only[…]
PROCLAMATION OF ST THÉRÈSE OF THE CHILD JESUS AND THE HOLY FACE AS A “DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH” HOMILY OF POPE JOHN PAUL II Sunday, 19 October 1997 “Nations shall come to your light” (Is 60: 3). The echo of Epiphany already resounds in the words of the prophet Isaiah as a fervent expectation and[…]
Hermanus of Reinchenau (1013 – 1054) called ‘Contractus’ due to the deformity purportedly caused by spina bifida and a cleft palate (as well as suffering from cystic fibrosis) – was a remarkable figure in the middle ages, a veritable renaissance man well before the renaissance, even if he did not quite look the part. Like[…]
In 1942, Catholic priest and apologist Ronald Knox remarked: A quite new hatred of the Catholic religion is growing up within my own lifetime – a hatred of its strict principles on certain points, which our neighbors … dislike as being a criticism of their own conduct, and a criticism which in their heart of[…]
