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
Technology in itself is neither good nor bad, but some technology tends more to the bad or the good. There are some theoretically good uses of, say, thermonuclear bombs – see the final scene in Armageddon, but be sure not to watch the full film. Condoms could make some heavy-duty water balloons. And the internet[…]
Here’s an intriguing, and for some, disturbing, take on the publishing industry: https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books The title is a bit misleading, in a provocative way, for people are still ‘buying books’, just not in the traditional and historical manner in which people used to buy books. Most of the money is made off what is called the[…]
Saint Agnes of Montepulciano (+1317) is one of the ‘incorruptibles’. She was born in the picturesque cliff-top Italian city on January 28th, 1268, the same day as her fellow Dominican, Thomas Aquinas (whose birth year was likely 1225). The future Jesuit and Cardinal, Saint Robert Bellarmine was also born in Montepulciano, and the region, in[…]
Two saints are commemorated on this 19th of April, both of the Middle Ages: Saint Ælfheah of Canterbury, more commonly known as ‘Alphege’, was born in 953 outside of Bath in southern England. In youth, he chose the higher path, becoming an anchorite, enclosing himself in as a hermit and dedicating his life solely to[…]
It seems slow – walking, that is – and, to our modern modes of transport, it is. Bikes can move at about 20 miles per hour; cars, 60; airplanes, 400 or more. Yet, as Nick Hunt argues – and as partial as I am to bicycles, and my write up another post on the glory[…]
Bd. Marie-Anne Blondin (+1890), whose optional memorial falls today in our fair Dominion, the day of her birth in 1809, five decades before Canada was Canada. Most Canadians, alas, have likely never heard of her, but she was one of the founders of our once-glorious and envied educational system, before it fell apart due to[…]
As readers may know, Scotland is the land of my birth and early upbringing, and I have been back a number of times to the auld sod. The brogue is still somewhat natural to me, deep down, along with the memories of dreekit weather and salty sea air – regardless of where you are in[…]
Saint Richard of Chichester (+1253) was a mediaeval bishop in Sussex – now the patron saint of that bucolic region in the south of England, whence hailed Hilaire Belloc. I’m not sure if he ever wrote of Saint Richard, but perhaps he did, and any reader who knows of such is free to send along[…]
Our parish priest reminded us this morning that by statutory law in Canada, today is officially ‘John Paul II Day’. I must confess that I did not know, and somehow missed, that back on December 16th, 2014, Parliament passed an Act to establish this day, to commemorate the great pontiff: 2 Throughout Canada, in each and[…]
This April 1st is the Monday of Easter Octave – and a continued blessed one to all. Christus resurrexit vere, alleluia! But in the secular world All Fools’ Day, fitting for Prime Minister Trudeau’s punitive carbon tax to come into effect, hiking the price of petrol 23%. Herr Leader is asking – warning – us[…]
