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
Popes used to avoid off-the-cuff interviews or answers to questions, knowing that the authority of their office carried far more weight, and was easily confounded with the fallible opinions of the man behind that office. Measured, thought-out, pondered and prayed over, advised and edited – only after such were papal pronouncements made. Now we have[…]
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, 7 November 2007 Saint Jerome (1) Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, we turn our attention to St Jerome, a Church Father who centred his life on the Bible: he translated it into Latin, commented on it in his works, and above all, strove to live it in[…]
The great dragon, the primeval serpent, known as the devil or Satan, who had deceived all the world, was hurled down to the earth and his angels were hurled down with him (Rev. 12:9). Today in the Archdiocese of Toronto we celebrate the Feast of St. Michael, the Archangel and observe it as a Solemnity.[…]
Charlie Kirk’s assassination on September 10, 2025, shook the conscience of the world. A young man, killed in broad daylight, was a campus speaker armed only with words, not a president with guards or a senator with influence. President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington. President James Garfield was struck down at[…]
For this question, it would not be possible, and possibly not helpful, to try to provide an apologetic for the reliability of “the Bible” if one was going to focus on the collection of texts itself. The Bible is too vast and too varied to be able to give one article’s worth of an answer.[…]
The Church in Canada venerates a number of Canadian saints and blesseds, almost all of them from Quebec, since the rest of Canada was officially and mostly Protestant, and the Church is not permitted to beatify members of other religions, for obvious reasons, even if they die with a reputation for holiness. Such today is[…]
You cannot serve God and mammon (Lk. 16:13). ⧾ At face value, it would seem that that the Gospel text of the Mass appears to be in favour of dishonesty in business dealing. Yet, like all of Our Lord’s parables, there is a deeper meaning that can only be accessed by faith. At the theological level,[…]
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Papal Summer Residence, Castel Gandolfo Wednesday, 1st September 2010 Saint Hildegard of Bingen Dear Brothers and Sisters, In 1988, on the occasion of the Marian Year, Venerable John Paul II wrote an Apostolic Letter entitled Mulieris Dignitatem on the precious role that women have played and play in the life of the Church.[…]
Charlie Kirk’s assassination unleashed not only predictable smears from his critics but also some of the most grotesque and dehumanizing responses imaginable toward an innocent man who left behind a wife and two young children. Among them were a taxpayer-funded Canadian social worker openly cheering his death, a professor at the University of Victoria gloating[…]
I must confess that I knew almost nothing about Charlie Kirk before his death. When one of my former students – now a young father – mentioned his assassination as he walked by my house, I dimly thought Charlie might be Russel Kirk’s son. But he is no relation, except in being both Christian and[…]
