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
Through the centuries there have been untold thousands of martyrs in China, and July 9th is chosen as the day to commemorate them, for it was on this day in 1900 that the Chinese government, during the so-called ‘Boxer Rebellion’, ordered the execution of 45 Christian men, women and children, and so is celebrated as[…]
I decided to make a pilgrimage to Rome, prompted by the Jubilee year, and walking through the Holy Doors. But I couldn’t just show up in Rome, so to make a pilgrimage of it, I thought I’d fly first to Vienna, where I’ve never been, to visit the International Theological Institute and a young alumni[…]
It was a day much like today, a hot, humid and sweltering July 6th in the year of our Lord 1902, one hundred and twenty three years ago, in a small farming town in the fetid area outside of Rome, when a young girl – one could scarcely call her a woman, at twelve years[…]
A joyous Independence Day to all our American readers. There are any number of factions developing in the once-United States, but all can be traced back to those who accept the Christian principles that hold the republic together – in God we trust – from those who have rejected them, and are more or less[…]
Saint Thomas, the Apostle, is called ‘Didymus’, the ‘twin’, perhaps, as some surmised, because he looked a lot like Christ. Whether that be true, he’s not like the Saviour in also being called ‘the Doubter’, for, missing on that ‘first day of the week’, he did not believe the other Apostles when they claimed that[…]
Or, if you will, Canada Day, to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of ‘Canada’ as a (mostly) independent part of the British Commonwealth. Canada, as readers may know from what once passed as Canadian history in high schools (as that still taught?), that Canada as a ‘country’ officially began with[…]
The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church – Tertullian (+240 A.D.) The first, or proto-, martyrs of the Church of Rome commemorate the untold number of Christians put to death under the reign of Nero, in the very first days of the Church, when to be a Christian meant more or less[…]
A blessed solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul! They were comites, as they say in Latin, companions in life, and in death, both martyred under the diabolical tyrant Nero sometime between 64 and 68 Anno Domini. Counting the years from Our Lord’s birth did not become a thing until Dionysius Exiguus began the practice in Scythia[…]
The notion of the ‘ordo amoris’ – the ‘order of love’ – has generated some debate of late, not least since some big names have been involved: JD Vance responding to Pope Francis, and Robert Cardinal Prevost – before he was elected to the papacy – responding to Mr. Vance, by re-tweeting a tweet. I[…]
Today is the traditional feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, even if it be muted this year due to the Sacred Heart – signified in one of the most famous ‘icons’ of the Virgin Mother, which, by tradition – legend, some might say – goes back to Saint Luke himself, who besides being a[…]
