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
Today, the second day of May, is the memorial of one of the most heroic bishops in the history of the Church, the great Saint Athanasius (+373), who stood contra mundum, against the world. He was mighty foe of the pernicious heresy of Arius, who denied the full divinity of Christ, and the hero of[…]
In the waning years of the 19th century, before the war to end all wars at the dawn of the twentieth, followed by the imposition of ‘real socialism’ by Lenin and Stalin, the first day of May was adopted as ‘International Workers’ Day’, to celebrate the rights of the laborer, in light of Marx and[…]
Saint Marie of the Incarnation (1599 – 1672) was a mystic and missionary to Canada, contemporaneous with the first settlers of this wild and savage land, along with the Franciscans and Jesuits who brought the Faith. She was born Marie Guyart in 1599, in Tours, France, her father a baker, her mother a homemaker, who[…]
Michel Ghislieri was born as Anton in 1504, but took the name of the Archangel ‘who is like God’ when he joined the Dominican Order at the age of 14, and never looked back. Fitting, for his whole life was a spiritual battle, first, against his own sinful tendencies – against which he was merciless,[…]
Canada has likely reached the point of no return, like a 12-0 hockey game in the final minutes of the third period, with the goalie pulled. I don’t play the game – soccer is what I grew up with, even if sports analogies always limp. At least in theory, in games, everyone’s pitching in, and[…]
Ecclesia semper reformanda est. So goes the old saying – the Church, always in need of reform – applies now, perhaps, more than ever. And one of her greatest reformers was not a Pope, nor a bishop, nor a man, but a simple woman of great holiness, intelligence, character and strength, a Dominican tertiary, who[…]
It’s election day here in Canada, even if we don’t have much of a choice. We have Mark Carney, about whom Scott Ventureyra wrote a masterful critique, warning his fellow Canadians about what the destruction he will bring in his train. Carney has publicly stated he will do nothing about the culture of death reigning[…]
On this 28th of April we celebrate two Saints: Saint Peter Chanel (+1841) who evangelized the island of Futuna in the South Pacific – the first to bring the Gospel to a people who had never heard of Christianity. He was tireless and indefatigable in the midst of very difficult and discouraging conditions, and, like many[…]
Saint Mark, writer of the Gospel and first bishop of Alexandria, was the missionary companion and amanuensis of Saint Peter, the first pope. The third-century theologian Saint Hippolytus (and repentant anti-Pope) claims that Mark was one of the seventy disciples sent forth by Christ, meeting up with Saint Paul (he is likely the ‘John Mark’[…]
Today used to be (*) a national holiday in England – as the people hearken back to an earlier and better time in the now tragically declined, if not lost, nation. For today is the feast of their patron, the semi-legendary Saint George, martyr for the Faith, slayer of the dragon and rescuer of princesses.[…]
