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
When a confessor hears the same sins repeated over and over again, a thousand million times over, he may begin to wonder if there’s any hope left for the human race. I guess that’s where faith kicks in. A couple of years ago I was deeply touched reading mystical conversations of Alicja Lenczewska (†2012) with[…]
Father Callam’s reflection on Dr. Leslie Hamilton Neatby evokes a Canada that was, and may never be again: A dominion united by common, fundamental principles, a shared Christian faith, a pursuit of the common good – to use a phrase from our neighbours to the south, one nation under God. Even our educational formation helped[…]
He was a good man, in the old Scottish Presbyterian phrase, God-ward and man-ward. – Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary Leslie Hamilton Neatby who died in 1997 had been born in 1902. It is thus not much of a chronological exaggeration to place him in the reign of Queen Victoria, who died in 1901. Moreover,[…]
As cliché as it sounds, we are living in unprecedented times. This is no less true in colleges and universities than it is elsewhere. Most students wishing to continue their studies have been required to take classes, entirely or in part, online for months; this situation is likely to persist for the foreseeable future –[…]
Please introduce yourself and your relationship with Faith and Music. My name is Thomas Crow and I am a Catholic Composer from Wakefield in England. My Mum is Catholic and my Dad is Anglican, but my sister and I were brought up Catholic, serving at Mass for many years. My Dad has played the organ[…]
If you were to consult a catalogue of saints, you would not find the name of Zacchaeus listed. Do you recall who he was—the wealthy tax collector who was so short that he had to climb a sycamore tree to see Jesus when he passed through Jericho. Was he if fact a saint? I would[…]
I recently returned from a trip to visit my family in Montreal and spend some time with old friends in the countryside nearby. Across the city and the small towns I visited I saw rainbow decals and drawings in windows. These weren’t gender ideological rainbows; nor were they reminders of the covenant. Underneath most of[…]
Jesus provides us with a motive for acting, viz., the love of God, which in practical terms produces a love of our neighbours. The behaviour of someone whose decisions come from such love will be different from those who act out of self-interest. Consider finances for instance. Where love is the activating principle, a business[…]
The World Health Organization’s special envoy on COVID-19 has urged world leaders to stop using lockdowns as the primary control method against the spread of the Wuhan virus, commonly known as COVID-19. Wait! …What? Did I read that right? “We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control[…]
Anyone who believes that God is the Author of all life and loves us unconditionally (and even many who don’t believe this) would instinctively endorse the notion that black lives do indeed matter. How can we not? Recent events have now persuaded many of us that black lives matter more than others on planet Earth[…]
