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
Eric Idle, of Monty Python comedy troupe fame, has recently tweeted that ‘climate change deniers’ (one of the few groups remaining, in this Disney-esque world-of-universal tolerance, upon which opprobrium can be piled without guilt) should be punished in an international court, and that such nefarious and recalcitrant malfeasants be ‘put down gently’; one may suppose[…]
Saint Joseph was proclaimed the patron of this country at its very origins, by none other than Samuel de Champlain himself, on March 19, 1624, a choice later ratified by Pope Urban VIII. Although Canada has gone through many trials, and seems to heading for many more, like his guidance of the Holy Family, Saint[…]
A very blessed and joyous Saint Patrick’s Day to all our readers, after a brief hiatus due to technical issues, for which we heartily apologize. Think of it as part of your, and our, Lenten sacrifice. But anon, now that we are back in business, so to speak, I will be posting an article or[…]
Yesterday, I alluded briefly to Sophie-Gregoire Trudeau, and how she had taken Emma Watson on a scooter ride around Ottawa upon the latter’s visit to the capital city last year. One would think they would be fellow travelers in more ways than one, sharing the feminist goals and dreams, whatever they may be. Well, let[…]
The North Koreans have tested yet another potentially-intercontinental missile, this one reaching scant 1000 km before crashing into the sea. Not bad, some might say, for the impoverished country, but one uses the term ‘intercontinental’ with a grain of salt, for they have a long way to go yet. The distance from Pyongyang to Los[…]
Today we begin the great journey of Lent, a name derived from an olde-Germanico-English word for ‘spring’, as in renewal, rejuvenation, a pruning and winnowing, so that new and vibrant growth may take root and flourish. We deny our insatiable souls the pleasure of certain permitted but not necessary things, re-attune ourselves in our relationship[…]
Not one MPP, yes, nary a one of our elected representatives in provincial parliament, not on Conservative, not even the much-vaunted Sam Oosterhoof and all the rest of the Conservatives, raised a voice of protest, even a token one, against the recent provincial motion M-37 condemning, you guessed it, Islamophobia. Emotionally-driven legislating is never good[…]
I suppose it is requisite to wish everyone a happy ‘Family Day’, even though my reservations with this holiday, which is not really a ‘holy day’, run deep. Imposed top-down by the heavy-handed and intrusive government of Dalton McGuinty, the pre-Wynne premier, many of whose socialist and immoral policies, the ineptitude of whose government, the[…]
Pondering the post-Valentine blues, here is a view of two opposite sides of culture that would have very difficult time cohabiting, so to speak. In Pakistan a mob of enraged men (there seem a lot of them in that part of the world) stormed a police station, beating and shooting to death a young couple. […]
The Church has consistently advocated the proper distribution of wealth in society, ensuring that each one has ‘enough’ on which to live. Of course, the Magisterium has consistently condemned the intrinsically perverse solution of ‘socialism’, advocated by Karl Marx, and developed by his intellectual descendants, wherein the benign and disinterested ‘State’ would gather to itself[…]
