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
Signs, signs, everywhere, signs, blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind… So sang the Five Man Electrical Band in their 1970 anti-establishment ballad, whose lyrics are clearly anti-signs, at least those that tell you ‘what to do’ or, more to the point, what not to do. Presuming they ever arrived in one piece at their[…]
Much controversy has been raised by Pope Francis’ recent reconfiguration of the constitutional make-up of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family. As he frames this in his Motu Proprio, Summa familiae cura, this is necessary to adapt to “the new pastoral challenges to which the Christian community is called to respond”. And[…]
Today’s reading, in Saint Paul’s letter to the young bishop Timothy, the Apostle requests all Catholics to ‘pray for those in high places’, for all those carrying that oft-misunderstood quality we call ‘authority’. Whether they are aware of such or not, everyone carrying that burden, however it was laid upon them, by birth, by vote,[…]
September 12th marks the anniversary of the Battle of Vienna, in 1683, when the army of the Holy Roman Empire, particularly with the help of the intrepid Polish army under the command of their king, Jan Sobieski, overcame superior odds to crush the onslaught of the advancing Ottoman Turks at the very gates of the[…]
The inchoate and fevered brain of Jennifer Lawrence, the over-feted Hunger Games and X-Men actress, is partly right, that horrific hurricane Irma, now the size of France, moving across the Atlantic like some primitive behemoth, is a punishment of sorts. Ms. Lawrence thinks she is Mother Nature’s revenge on Trump supporters (and by ‘she’, I[…]
September 5th was the 20th anniversary of the death of Teresa of Calcutta, canonized by Pope John Paul II on September 4th, 2003, but still known colloquially as ‘Mother Teresa’, sometimes with a ‘Saint’ preceding. Her death in 1997 was overshadowed by the tragic, violent and unexpected death of another famous figure, Princess Diana of[…]
Blessed Dina Belanger died on this day in 1929, suffering from tuberculosis, brought on by the scarlet fever she contracted while tending a sick boy. Dina was from a devout Quebec family, and her first calling was as a concert pianist, giving public performances in New York from 1918 to 1921, yet she also had[…]
I enjoyed a discussion recently with some priest friends on the Benedict Option, particularly as this applies to education. How much do we ‘retreat’ from the world and its current anti-Christian, even anti-rational, culture, now immersed in a widespread iconoclastic historical revisionism, smashing an images or words that ‘offend’ their rather sensitive sensibilities. There is[…]
The decapitation of Saint John the Baptist, or more colloquially his beheading, is a memorial in the Church, unlike his birth, commemorated on June 29th, celebrated as a solemnity. Most saints, the day of their death is their primary feast day, but with Saint John, it was his birth that signified the coming of the[…]
What can one say about Saint Augustine, the great bishop and doctor of the Church, who died on this day in the year of Our Lord 430, in the midst of the invasion of the Vandals, a barbarian horde which streamed into North Africa (then Roman territory) from the tip of Spain now known as[…]
