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
We may rejoice at the re-opening of the Basilica of Notre-Dame, after its partial destruction in the fire on April 15th, 2019. But with some reservation, as befits Catholics in a world where the good will never be fully achieved this side of heaven. The day after the re-dedication, December 9th – this year the[…]
(Today is Miss Swift’s 35th birthday, the feast of Saint Lucy, patron saint of light. As we mention in this reprieve, may the virgin-martyr bring the wayward pop star on the path to the fullness of truth, life and…yes, joy). Editor Is Taylor Swift joyful? Some seem to think so. In a recent article comparing[…]
Saint Bibiana (+ca. 363), who is commemorated today, a virgin martyred during the reign of Julian the Apostate (355-363), is the patroness of single laywomen, amongst her other heavenly duties (she is also invoked, for reasons I cannot discern, for hangovers, whether as a cure or as a prevention, but probably both). Single ladies could[…]
There’s a story told of Father Georges Lemaitre, the priest who first proposed the theory of the Big Bang in 1927. He didn’t call it that, but rather the ‘Hypothesis of the Primeval Atom’. It was the atheist Frederick Hoyle who coined the nickname, perhaps in derision (although he later denied this motivation) in a[…]
Saint Stanislaus Kostka – who died in 1568 just a few months shy of his eighteenth birthday – is one of the most popular saints in Poland. His short life demonstrates two primary lessons: That much can be done in little time, and that whatever time we are given here on earth, it’s all given[…]
In the United States, November 13th is the memorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, or ‘Mother Cabrini’ (1850 – 1917) as she came to be known. From her earliest years, she was drawn to religious and missionary life. Although of frail health limi- or perhaps because of such, as God works best through our weakness[…]
Today is Saint Martin’s Day, (+397), a former soldier in the Roman empire who, inspired by the edifying example of the Christians, decided as a ten year old to convert to Catholicism (people grew up earlier back then). His pagan father objected, and Martin served as a Catholic in the mostly pagan Roman army, completing[…]
It’s kind of sad to read Gerald McDermott’s[1] lament on the state of modern Anglicanism, striving to find a locus veritatis – a place wherein they may find the truth. The problem, of course, is that only the Catholic Church founded by Christ has the ‘fullness of truth’, of which she is the ‘pillar and bulwark’.[…]
On November 6th in 963, Emperor Otto I called a council in Rome, which condemned and then deposed Pope John XII, on charges that the pontiff had staged an ‘armed rebellion’ against the emperor. The Pope fled, and Leo VIII elected in his place. But the deposition was never really carried out, for John quickly[…]
Not much is known about today’s saint, who, by what accounts we have, died in 559 A.D. And those accounts date only from the 11th century. He was apparently converted under the reign of the first Catholic king of France, Clovis – himself a former pagan, baptized in 508. Leonard was a member of the[…]
