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
Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001) was a British analytic philosopher who early in life met and was deeply influenced by the great Austrian logician and linguist Ludwig Wittgenstein. Her most original contribution to philosophy is the monograph Intention, a study of reason as applied to human actions. The American analytic philosopher Donald Davidson described Intention as “the[…]
Saint Anselm (+1109) was bishop of the see of Canterbury, back when it was still Catholic, and remained officially so until the predations of the Tudors, the descendants of Henry VIII. Yet, Anselm had his own struggles with the Kings of his earlier age, William Rufus and Henry I, who wanted to control the Church,[…]
April 12th marked the anniversary of the death of Saint Joseph Moscati, an Italian physician, who dedicated his life to helping the sick and the poor, often giving them money along with their prescriptions, taking a vow of chastity so he could focus on this apostolate, helping countless patients, and was one of the first to[…]
Veritas vos Liberabit– the Truth Will Set You Free (John 8:32). What does it mean to be free? Freedom is an objective good, and a universal desire. We want to be free. Indeed, we were created for it. Our neighbours to the immediate south proudly proclaim their right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of[…]
So, what of hell? As you may have heard, and on which I wrote a few days ago, Pope Francis has allegedly (through the perhaps hazy recollection of Eugenio Scalfari after an untranscribed interview) denied that souls spend an eternity in ‘hell’, but are rather annihilated, cast into oblivion and cease to exist. We know[…]
“I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. John 11: 25-6. Easter 2018. Plaster may be falling on worshippers at St.Peter’s in Rome and Pope Francis may or may not have denied the existence of Hell[…]
The controversy over ‘Lettergate’ is an indicative one, wherein the Vatican Secretariat for Communication, Msgr. Dario Vigano (who has since been demoted, sort of, to third-in-command at said Curia) distorted the views of Pope Emeritus Benedict in his comments on a collection of Pope Francis’ ‘theology’, a compendium of theological works that have shaped the[…]
The recent ban in the province of Quebec on the niqab, the Islamic face-covering, when receiving ‘public services’ (reserved, of course, only for females) has raised a number of questions. Is the State interfering in religious freedom? Should Muslims, and Muslim women in particular, have the right to cover their face? (The underlying and, for[…]
I am known by many names like Beelzebul, Mephistopheles, or Satan. When I was created, God called me Lucifer, but I prefer–Prince of Darkness. He literally fired me before the Big Bang for my arrogance, selfishness, and disobedience and banished me forever to Earth after it came into existence. For this reason, I detest God[…]
If you have a few moments, read and ponder the Holy Father’s recent address on matters liturgical. Nothing absolutely new, but the trend of things is evident. We will see where all this goes, as the ‘reform’ of the Liturgy continues, an as I head off to a wedding tomorrow in the usus antiquior. May[…]
