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
(Here is a re-post of an article I wrote seven or so years ago now, and I’ll keep harping until this unsightly practice is wiped from the face of the earth. And speaking of wiping off the face, here is a recent admission by comedian and actor Peter Davidson on the blisteringly painful process of[…]
A country without borders is no country at all. It is, rather – to paraphrase Metternich’s description of 19th century Italy – nothing more than a ‘geographical expression’; a swathe of land that anyone may enter at will is no nation at all. But there is a deeper, metaphysical reality to borders, as there is[…]
A blessed memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, co-workers of Saint Paul, both of them ordained by him into the early episcopacy of the Church, when every bishop was a ‘missionary’, sent forth into unknown, hostile, pagan territory, meaning an almost certain martyrdom. Paul’s two letters to Timothy and one to Titus are bracing for[…]
Many of us have heard of Saint Damien of Molokai, the heroic missionary priest who gave his life working amongst the lepers in Hawaii. But there is a female version, celebrated today, Saint Marianne Cope (1838 – 1918), a religious sister, who, with six companions, also offered themselves to the same mission. Sister Marianne assisted[…]
So the DDF – the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the CDF, and before that, the SCDF, the ‘S’ standing for ‘Sacred’ and, boy, do I long for those bygone days – under the tutelage of Cardinal Victor ‘Tucho’ Fernandez, has just done what many feared they might, approving the blessing of[…]
Can we forgive someone who doesn’t accept our forgiveness? Or someone who doesn’t think he needs it? There was a group of us discussing this question recently, in reference to all that has happened in the past few years, as people try to re-forge old friendships. But the question goes far beyond all that, into[…]
Saint Bernard of Corleone (1605 – 1667) could be the patron saint of the Mafia, and not just because he hails from the same region as the fictional crime family of Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel, and Francis Coppola’s subsequent film series. What I mean by that is that, like the Mafioso, Bernard – whose original[…]
We won’t talk about the resurfaced book by Cardinal Fernandez, like some antedeluvian and postlapsarian creature out of the black lagoon. The current head of what is now known as the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has already embarrassed himself with his treatise on kissing for teens – bad enough – but the[…]
Was Christ was a human person? That may seem an odd question, to which most of us might reply, of course He was! (or is that is)? But the correct response is that He was not. Counter-intuitive, perhaps, but, this is a central truth of our faith, without which there would be no real Incarnation. […]
The Church begins each new calendar year with a Marian feast, celebrating the Virgin Mary as the Mother of God, Theotokos – literally the ‘Bearer of God’ – defined at the Council of Ephesus in 431, against the heresy of Nestorius, who claimed that Mary only bore the human person of Christ, and hence only[…]
