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
It must be admitted that sermons can be awfully boring. I know that my heart sinks when I hear a priest begin, “In the first reading. . . .” After summarizing what we have already just heard, he moves on: “And in the second reading. . . .” Finally, when he says, “And in the[…]
The power of government rests on ignorance of the people, and it knows this, and therefore will always resist enlightenment. Leo Tolstoy Earlier this month, Tucker Carlson declared that historians will one day come to view his country’s handling of the Covid pandemic as the greatest crime in American history. The Fox News commentator cited[…]
When the Constitutional Convention concluded, Benjamin Franklin upon his exit from the event was accosted by a woman who asked him what kind of government the people had been given. “A republic, madam … if you can keep it,” Franklin tersely replied. Thomas Sowell’s Dismantling America: and Other Controversial Essays (2010) was far-sighted to say[…]
Today’s Gospel[1] reminds us vividly that the teaching of Jesus was new, as fresh as new wine. One must wonder, however, precisely in what manner the Gospel is a novelty, how it can be a rupture with what God himself had established in the revelation and worship of Old Testament times? After all, Our Lord[…]
In a previous article, Becoming Blind to Pornography on the Internet, I discussed the benefits of a particular filtering and self-control software which is primarily targeted towards individuals seeking freedom from the chains of pornography addiction. While it is certainly viable to use filtering software for protecting your family, I believe there is a solution[…]
One of the age-old objections that Protestants have to the Catholic priesthood is known as the “Call No Man Father” Argument, which runs something like this: Christ in Matthew 23:9 forbids His disciples from calling men their fathers,[1] and since one is to take the words of Christ according to the Literal Sense of Scripture,[…]
For anyone who knows Hebrew, reading the Bible must have an element of fun, something like solving a puzzle. For the names all mean something, and the reader who can interpret them thus has a clue to the role this or that person plays in salvation history. I mention this fact, because today’s reading bristles[…]
The Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord, which falls the Sunday after the Epiphany Sunday, officially ends the liturgical Christmas season. There are some very inspiring quotes from the Fathers of the Church concerning the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord. St Basil the Great (329-379) presents this feast as a school of[…]
Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:10 Hilaire Belloc’s somewhat long and forgotten Survivals and New Arrivals (1929) is worth looking at again from a contemporary perspective. Subtitled The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church, this book reveals Belloc to[…]
A very blessed Solemnity of the Epiphany, or Second Sunday of Christmas, depending on where you’re reading this. Here in Canada, the feast commemorating the visit of the Magi is moved to the previous Sunday, for ‘pastoral reasons’, which has the unfortunate effect of compressing the Twelve Days of Christmas. So we live them out[…]
