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
One of the worst of logical fallacies – which is to say, the weakest – is the ad hominem argument. That is, instead of responding to your opponent’s arguments in a reasoned manner, you simply insult him and, by illogical extension, his argument. This is the primary mode of ‘debate’ – insofar as it may[…]
We may sympathize with the SSPX, for who would not seek to flee the mediocrity, if not outright mayhem, all too frequently found in modern liturgy, and seek the beauty, reverence, flowing chant, silence, and all that comprises our Catholic Tradition? Yet how do we do get there, or back there, especially in the liturgical[…]
On this feast of Saint Luke, physician and healer, it is a propos that we post a link to a series of insightful and intriguing essays on our health-and-safety obsessed world, by the doughty Douglas Farrow, professor of theology and ethics at McGill university. In his vivid words, he sums up our current, and very[…]
The long-awaited, or dreaded, depending on one’s perspective, Synod on Synodality begins today, and we pray that whatever God wills from this, whether antecedently or permissively, may come to pass. We may have some gratitude, for the Synod is ‘apocalyptic’ in the sense that it will reveal what is really within the minds and souls[…]
I recently read a short (152 pages) and small book (each page is 5” by 6”), with beautiful font, and a fittingly short title, Chant, by Katherine le Mée, published in 1994. But don’t let its size fool you, for, in flowing and precise text, it is one of the best treatises that I have[…]
On September 19th, 1846, Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat, two shepherd children were coming home from tending their flock outside the picturesque hamlet of La Salette, nestled in the French Alps. Sitting on a rock, weeping profusely, was a beautiful woman, clothed in a white robe, with a gold crucifix around her neck. All quite[…]
In Matthew’s Gospel (19:12) Our Lord exhorts us to become ‘eunuchs’, which is not to be taken too literally, even if there are rumours the third-century theologian Origen did. And most certainly did Peter Abelard suffer that fate, by some ruffians hired by the uncle of his paramour Eloise, when his relationship with her went[…]
The punishing penal sentences meted to two groups of protestors – a group of pro-lifers who blocked an abortuary, as well as those who wandered through the Capitol on ‘January 6’ – are indicative: People – at least, the ‘wrong’ sorts of people – with no weapons, nor prior criminal records, and who caused no[…]
God permits moral evil – He never wills it, let it be said – but He does allow it, even the grave and demonic kind, for reasons that are mysterious. But one which we may glean, as Saint Thomas says, is that such evil allows moral goodness – far more powerful – to shine out[…]
(With Father James Altman’s recent declaration on the question of sedevacantism, here is a re-post of something I wrote earlier in the summer, and why we must tread with great caution in declaring a papacy, or any given pope, null and void. Whatever good intentions there be, and whatever reservations we have, even deep and[…]
