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
Well, it has happened, as expected: After a rather perfunctory debate, Australia has caught up with history and the current mind-numbing zeitgeist and, like another domino, fallen to that whole-cloth fiction of same-sex ‘marriage’. And this, twelve long years after Canada did so, way back in 2005, when our then Prime Minister, Paul Martin, after[…]
One might think that the intended raising of the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2019 is a Wynne win for the little guy, struggling away to make ends meet, flipping burgers, waiting tables, mopping floors, and for some it might be just such a small but pyrrhic victory. I am all for doing[…]
The headline reads: ‘Meaghan Markle is the strong, modern, feminist princess we need right now’. In case you have not heard, Prince Harry, the younger son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s ill-fated marriage, has proposed to the American (well, sort of) actress, and, as I have heard, the ginger-haired most-eligible bachelor scarcely made it[…]
Today is the feast of Saint Andrew, Apostle, brother of Saint Peter, patron of Scotland, Russia, Ukraine and Greece, for reasons that are somewhat historically tenuous. But, as Belloc says, behind every legend, there is always some truth. Of one such, it is told that the ship upon which Andrew was sailing veered off course,[…]
Mount Agung in the Indonesian resort island of Bali is currently erupting, and residents and tourists are waiting to see if it will really blow. No one quite knows what to expect. Already, Agung is spewing thick ash 30,000 feet into the air, cancelling flights, leaving over 50,000 people stranded. Well, look on the bright[…]
A blessed solemnity of Christ the King to one and all, in this last week before Advent, the last liturgical solemnity of the year, instantiated by Pope Pius XI in 1925 in the aftermath of the tragedy of World War I. As the Holy Father pointed out in his 1922 encyclical Ubi aracni Dei consilo,[…]
Propitiously, we celebrate a triptych of saints on this November day: The first, in time, was Saint Clement (+99 A.D.), traditionally accepted as the third Pope after Saint Peter’s inaugural reign, following Linus and Cletus, as is recited in the Roman Canon (although other traditions place him as the immediate successor to Peter). He is[…]
The Presentation of the Virgin Mary is a mirror image, if you will, of the future Presentation of her Son in the Temple, both signifying a dedication to God from the earliest age, a noble and pious tradition in the Jewish and, later, Catholic religion. The account of Our Lady’s dedication is recounted in the[…]
A very hearty and joyous congratulations to Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth on their platinum anniversary, a milestone very few reach. To live to three score and ten is certainly possible with modern medicine, diet and a tad of exercise, but to be married for seventy years, at least to the same person, well, one[…]
A good wife, who can find? She is far more precious than jewels… Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. (cf., Proverbs 31) As I write, it is the evening of the memorial of Saint Margaret of Scotland (+1090), the English wife of the[…]
