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 do it all for the sake of the Gospel, so that I may share in its blessings (1 Cor. 9:23). St. Paul’s passionate words addressed to the earliest Christians in the city of Corinth certainly ring true when we consider the Church’s missionary efforts and the continuing work of evangelization that is at the[…]
The most marked political tendency of the American people has been to interpret their government as a pure and simple democracy, and to shift it from a territorial to a purely popular basis … to change their constitution from a republican to a despotic, or from a civilized to a barbaric constitution. Thus begins chapter[…]
On January 31 the Church celebrates the feast of Saint John Bosco, the founder of the worldwide huge Salesian family. Don Bosco (1815-1888), as a spiritual father and a splendid teacher as he was, managed, by God’s grace, to be an excellent mix between nature and grace. He was profoundly human, rich in the qualities[…]
There are two multiplication of the loaves, which makes it evident that they are concerned with more than merely feeding the crowds. The first came after the raising from the dead of the daughter of Jairus, when Jesus had said to her parents, “Give her something to eat” (5.43). This very phrase was repeated when[…]
Catholics have sung our praise to God for the entirety of the Church’s history. For at least a thousand years, Gregorian chant formed the basis of a Catholic musical patrimony and identity, with a revival of the art form occurring in the late 19th century and onward, as a result of the work of the[…]
As the madness continues and we deal with patently irrational policies enforced in both the secular and the ecclesiastical realm, it is important for us to formulate a properly ordered perspective that acknowledges the ultimate triumph of good over evil. Sacred history teaches us that this is ultimately the end result in every struggle between[…]
Plato had something against the sophists, those itinerant teachers of rhetoric who rose to prominence in the fifth century BC, mostly in Athens. The sophists claimed to be able to convince anyone of anything, whether true or false, and presumed to be able to teach the same – at significant cost, of course. They were[…]
(I thought a re-post of these thoughts from nearly five years ago now (!) was a propos, given our current Alice-in-Wonderland-cum-1984 world, making our way, as others have said, through a blizzard of lies. Having lived through the terrorism and boot-in-your-face of the Nazis, Josef Pieper warned four decades ago of the evil warping of[…]
One of the greatest minds of all time is certainly that of St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), whose feast we celebrate on this January 28th. Even if he lived at the zenith of the Middle Ages, however his teaching is so clear, strong and persuasive that it has stood its ground for some eight millennia, making[…]
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), famously known to Catholics as the Angelic Doctor, was born in Italy to prosperous parents of royal lineage. At the age of five he impressed everyone by continually asking, “Quid est Deus?” (What is God?) Recognizing the precocious intellect of their son, his parents sent him to the best Benedictine teachers[…]
