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
You have to love conversion stories, from the very real Saul on that road to Damascus, to the fictional Scrooge on a Dickensian Christmas morning, all the way to the stories of ‘Jane Roe’ and Bernard Nathanson, of which I wrote a few days ago, and so many countless others. They warm the heart, and[…]
Pope Fabian (+250) was put to death on this day in the persecution of Emperor Decius, for refusing to offer idolatrous sacrifice, and this after a rather long reign of 14 years characterized by its rather amicable relations with Caesar, which allowed the good Pontiff to set up the hierarchical structure of the Church in[…]
I am not entirely sure what Christopher Nolan was going for in his recent re-make of Dunkirk, a visually lush version of the heroic evacuation of hundreds of thousands of British soldiers from the shores of France across the English Channel at the end of May, 1940. (There was an original 1958 film, which I[…]
I am not sure what is happening within the Church, but to hear that the recently-appointed head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Father Maurizio Chiodi, reportedly justifying the use of artificial contraception in certain cases in a December 14th lecture is, to put it mildly, troubling. To put the matter more clearly, Father Chiodi’s claims,[…]
In response to a town-hall question during his cross-Canada tour, Prime Minister Trudeau doubled down on the controversial abortion attestation box on the application for government funding for student summer job grants, requiring applicants to testify in an explicit way their support for ‘reproductive rights’, including a woman’s free and untrammeled access to abortion. When[…]
Well, at the risk of some level of sensationalism, it seems the persecution has begun, on the fringes at least. The Liberals under Justin Trudeau and Employment Minister Patty Hajdu are now requiring that institutions applying for a Summer Job funding grant from the federal government (which many Catholic and Christian groups do) must check[…]
The current brouhaha over yet another antic by our perpetually jejune Prime Minister concerns a photo of him and his brother, Alexandre, (of whom I know rather little) smiling for the camera in some Christmas moment (a day on which by some coincidence they were both born), posing in what some Conservatives are describing as[…]
A panel of health-care providers, as the term now has it, on the radio other day was discussing euthanasia, or, again as the language goes, medical assistance in dying. It seems even the least squeamish and scrupulous of physicians, who have suppressed the ‘do no harm’ clause in the Hippocratic oath almost to insignificance, have[…]
The memorial of the Holy Name of Jesus dates back to the early modern period, just after the Middle Ages, a devotion popularized, along with that of the Sacred Heart, in the 14th century by saints such as Bernardine of Siena (+1444). The power of the holy name derives from the One who Whom it[…]
A joyful New year, and very blessed solemnity of Mary, Mother of God to all our readers. In the usus antiquior, this used to be called the feast of the Circumcision, still mentioned in today’s Gospel. Of course, by celebrating Our Lady’s maternity, we are also celebrating Christ, and this feast is both Mariological and[…]
