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
Your degeneracy is astonishing. Find God,” responded Josh Alexander to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s June 21 tweet from Reykjavik:“Took this yesterday before heading home – because we couldn’t leave Reykjavík without visiting Rainbow Street. To everyone celebrating Pride in Iceland, in Canada, and around the world: Happy Pride season!” Thirty years after Canada’s centennial, prominent[…]
You have just heard one of the parables of Jesus, quite a complicated one. It accomplishes what a parable is supposed to do: it teases the imagination. Who was that king, and how could anyone, presumably his subject, dare refuse the invitation to the prince’s wedding, much less abuse the messengers? Why would the invitee[…]
There is much talk of the ‘last days’, the apocalypse, the end of the world. In in the midst of the turmoil that swirls around us – but hopefully not within us – Catholics, especially on this Fatima memorial, should keep three things in mind. Well, at least these three: First, we are always in[…]
(John Hartley presents a three-part series of Saint John Henry Newman’s views of education. Here is the first, on the commemoration of the great Oratorian.) This essay will critically evaluate Saint John Henry Newman’s contribution to philosophy of education, in order extricate implications for catechesis. Much has been written concerning Newman’s idea of further education,[…]
As we celebrate the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, we would do well to reflect upon the Apostolic Letter by the Marian Pope St John Paul II on the Rosary, called Rosarium Virginis Mariae. Whilst it is impossible to go through it all it is important to appreciate some important points the[…]
The faith and devotion of religious people is evident in many ways. They have deeply held beliefs and belong to an organized religion – and here we may think most eminently of the Catholic Church. Works, words, and often outward appearance can point even most the casual observer to the religious person. This is a[…]
For our musical offering this week, we thought we’d go on this day dedicated to the Archangels to a composer named after them, Archangelo Corelli (1653 – 1715, who took his first name from his father, who died five weeks before his son’s birth). He was an early baroque composer, whose primary instrument was the[…]
(One of our most popular articles from the archives from a few years ago, but well worth a read or re-read on this feast of Michaelmas, and his angelic brethren, Raphael and Gabriel…Not least that in a certain diocese south of here, the prayer has been disallowed after Mass. We should, au contraire, maintain the[…]
(On this anniversary of the doleful and ambiguous Winnipeg Statement by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, back in 1968, as their response to Paul VI’s promulgation of Humanae Vitae on July 25th of that year, here is a re-post of what the indomitable Paula Adamick has to say of its woeful wages). All[…]
Here is a poem by Lorraine Labriola, on forgiveness, which we post in light of the Jewish commemoration of Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement – and as you read, you will see why. The notion of forgiveness is deep and complex: Can we forgive, when the other is not ready, or even willing,[…]
