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
Patron saint of scientists, Albert the Great (1200-1280), scholar, Dominican, bishop, and Doctor of the Church, was considered the most learned man of his century, with an encyclopedic knowledge of just about everything under the Sun, in an age when one could truly be a renaissance man before the inaccurately-named era of the same name.[…]
In a radio address on October 26, 1946, with the horrors of World War II still fresh (if such be the term) in the minds of all, Pius XII declared that perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin. The Holy Father knew what[…]
Pope Saint Leo the Great, who reigned from 440 until his death on this day in 461, was known for many things. With his wise mind, his magnanimous soul and zeal, he helped solidify the papacy, and the role of the ‘Holy Father’, which would be further clarified by subsequent pontiffs, not least Gregory, also[…]
The apple falls not far from the tree: Prince William, son of Charles of the same title, albeit of a different region of England (Cambridge vs Wales), has come to the conclusion, just like dear old Dad, and, come to think of it, Dad before him (Philip, of Edinburgh), that there are there are ‘too[…]
You’ve probably heard about the recent speech by our newly minted Governor-General: Ms. Julie Payette, whose task it is to stand in for the Queen in a ceremonial way, went way beyond ceremony, and began pontificating on the superiority of science over faith. In fact, mocking religion, she put anyone who holds such quaint notions as[…]
Although I agree with much of what Father Raymond de Souza says in his recent column in the National Post, I must respectfully disagree with his comparison between the recent ‘bubble zone’ law in the Ontario, and the ‘niqab’ law in Quebec. He is correct, that both laws stem from regimes that can be described as[…]
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[…]
Yesterday was, or would have been had it not been the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time, the feast of Pope Saint John Paul II, crowned as the 264th Pope on October 22nd, 1978, and passing into his eternity on April 2, 2005. We have therefore gone twelve years without his charismatic, joyful, exuberant, highly intelligent,[…]
Hubris may be defined, in accord with its roots in the hierarchic Greek culture from which the term derives, as thinking more of oneself than one’s talents, charisms, circumstances and office, permit. Our modern leaders seem rather full of it, and I mean hubris, acting as though their position bestows on them a wisdom and[…]
The Ontario Legislature has just passed second reading on a bill to limit witness and protests outside abortion ‘clinics’ within a 50 metre ‘bubble zone’, as well as hospitals, pharmacies and the homes of abortion-providers, a euphemism for professional clinical and well-compensated assassins of unborn children. The sad, sad thing is that one expects this[…]
