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 pray that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” John 17: 20-21 The triumphant rise of modern atheism, which today has for its object to threaten[…]
(Today, September 17th, marks the 800th anniversary of Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata of Our Lord. Here are the words of Father Attard, and one may also peruse the reflection by Father Thomas Weinandy in today’s CatholicThing. Editor) Today, Tuesday 17 September 2024, is the feast of the Stigmata of our Seraphic Father[…]
In honour of this feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, here is a beautiful motet by Giaches (1535 ~ 1595), which dates back to 1581, when so many were rejecting the Cross as the efficacious sign of our Faith.
As we are joyfully celebrating the feast of the Holy Name of Mary, on this twelfth of September, it is important that we see and value her name as our hope. You may rightly ask: But how is this so? My humble answer is found in that beautiful 2007 encyclical written by Pope Benedict XVI[…]
Most people regard religion as a constructive and positive force in human history, while some regard it as a false and negative force. Naturally, that depends on which religion you are talking about, and even on whether or not you happen to be religious. Some old religions, and perhaps some new ones, appear to be[…]
Next month, October, marks the 40th anniversary of the abduction and murder of Blessed Father Jerzy Popiełuszko (1947-1984). He was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and a Chaplain of the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union “Solidarity”. For many Catholics, particularly those born in Central and Eastern Europe, Father Jerzy remains a symbol of all those who[…]
“I had studied Ratzinger’s writings in advance and especially his diagnoses of the times. And I was somewhat stunned to see that Ratzinger’s analyses of the development of society had been largely confirmed. In addition, none of the contemporary witnesses I interviewed, fellow students, assistants, companions, who really knew Ratzinger, could confirm the image of[…]
Religion and philosophy share one precise goal: to explore and explain all the unseen causes behind the visible world of human experience. Philosophy seeks to explain these causes strictly by rational methods. Religion, while it does not repudiate the rational approach to the invisible world, does allege that reason by itself is unable to penetrate[…]
Deacon Kyle Broderson recently gave a talk during which he asked the men in his audience to consider what they most wanted to be in life. It wasn’t long before the men got around to agreeing that every man wanted to be a man. Perhaps that answer to the question was prompted by the general[…]
To a scientist—an honest one—the term disruptive is one of approbation. It means something’s been discovered or invented that shakes the continuously ossifying framework of accepted knowledge and possibly dislodges something new. There’s even a system for quantifying how disruptive your idea might prove to be: the CD (consolidation-or-destabilization) Index, developed by Dr.s Funk and[…]
