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
Father Martin Hilbert, C.O. has written a remarkable book. His ‘The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design’, an argument for seeing God’s handiwork and providence in the order and beauty of creation, covers a lot of ground: evolution, genetics, anthropology, and, of course, philosophy and theology. The overarching purpose of the book is to ally faith[…]
On February 18th, 1942, the Gestapo rounded up the leaders of the White Rose resistance movement, four of them young students, and one a professor, at the University of Munich – Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl. All had become disillusioned with the Nazi movement, and when they discovered its true evil, this turned to[…]
Today marks the 60th anniversary of our adoption, back in 1965 under Lester B. Pearson, of a the ‘maple leaf’ as our national flag, replacing the richer symbolism of the Canadian Red Ensign. Whatever one’s aesthetic tastes, symbols mean something. The union jack, with Saint Andrew’s and Saint George’s Crosses, along with the lion rampant[…]
Claude de la Colombière (1641 – 1682) is known primarily for his role as the spiritual director of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, the recipient of numerous visions of the Sacred Heart, devotion to which she was asked to spread, in a quiet, anonymous way. But the good Jesuit did much more than this, counseling future[…]
On this February 13th we commemorate the mystic Dominican tertiary Saint Catherine Ricci (1522 – 1590), a contemporary of Saint Philip Neri (+1515 -1595), to whom she appeared by bilocation, one of her miracles for her canonization. Saint Philip was normally very reticent about such supernatural occurrences – one of his maxims was ‘secretum meum mihi’ – my[…]
(This is a revision of a previous post, with some new material – as the theme suggests, it’s difficult to keep up with the Trump and his administration…) Say what you like about Donald Trump, but he’s energetic for a man pushing 80, to put it mildly. Unlike his soporific predecessor, he seems in full[…]
Today, with Saint Josephine Bakhita, we also celebrate Saint Gerolamo – or Jerome – Emiliani (+1537), who ran away from his home in Venice at the age of 15 after his father’s death, becoming a soldier in the religious and political wars then raging in Europe, taken prisoner in a dungeon, which provided him the[…]
Saint Andrew Corsini (1302 – 1374) was born in Florence on November 30th. Hence, he was fittingly named after the great Apostle. Alas, ‘Andrea’ did not live much like an apostle in youth, which was spent in dissolution, as do so many in those insouciant salad days. His mother’s words of concern for his soul[…]
Trudeau has promised to resign – so he says, as of March 9th, and for that we may give thanks to God. But he’s still the Prime Minister until then, and we wait to see if he will keep his word (don’t laugh). His feckless ‘leadership’ has proved disastrous, strutting and fretting his hour upon[…]
At the beginning of the ‘vaccine’ mandates, many were criticized as conspiracy theorists – tin-foil-hatted crackpots – for simply questioning the safety and efficacy of these largely-untested mRNA therapies, as the juggernaut of coercive mandates rolled across the entire globe. The full truth is now being revealed – one might say, apocalyptically – in accord[…]
