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
Saint Rose of Viterbo (1233 – 1251) was a recluse in the Italian commune from which she takes her name, and which was contested during her lifetime between the forces of the Emperor, Frederick II, the stupor mundi – the wonder of the world – and forces of the Pope. She sided with the Pope,[…]
Truth can be a difficult thing to grasp. Defined by Saint Thomas, following Aristotle, as adequatio rei et intellectus – the conformity between the intellect and reality, the problem resides not so much in our mind, but that we don’t have immediate access to all of ‘reality’. In fact, only to a small and surface[…]
Even the secular news had to admit that it was odd, even using the word ‘miraculous’ as this headline proclaimed, that the Catholic church was spared in the tragic wildfires on Maui. Across the Pacific, the same is happening in Western Canada, battling their own blazes – all of the churches have been left intact.[…]
Saint Agapitus, an early Roman martyr (+274) was from the ancient family of Palestrina, from which, 1300 years later, would derive one of the greatest of the Church’s choral polyphonists, of eponymous name. Agapitus, who did not bear any children, was captured in the persecution of Aurelian, tortured – the statue shows him upside down, which[…]
A few words on World Youth Day, which just wrapped up in Lisbon, on which much ink has already been spilled: There is, as in most things, the good, the bad and the ugly – is there a beautiful? Not in the liturgical celebrations, which came across – as so often in our ecclesia moderna,[…]
Climate change hysteria is heating up, with parts of the globe experiencing record-level temperatures. As the saying goes, never let a good crisis go to waste, and the current heat wave offers good fodder. We should be cautious in attributing too much to this. ‘Record-level’ implies since the time of record-keeping, which is quite recent[…]
Dr. Ryan Topping, of Newman Theological College in Edmonton, zealous proponent of true Catholic education, life-long teacher, prolific author and sometime contributor to these pages, has written in his latest book a very handy, thoughtful treatise Thinking as Though God Exists: Newman on Evangelizing the “Nones”. The ‘nones’ are those who profess no religion at[…]
Pastor Arthur Pawlowski has been found guilty of “inciting mischief and eco-terrorism”, a charge that could result in a ten-year prison sentence. You may recall his uncompromising resistance to the Covidian tyranny imposed on Canadian citizens. Totalitarian regimes can hardly do otherwise, for Pawlowski acted in public defiance, and if his example were permitted to[…]
On this day, in 1917, Prime Minister Robert Borden – whose mustachioed visage is on the $100 bill – imposed an income tax on Canadians, varying from 4 -25% of one’s income, in large part to pay for the costs of the First World War into which our Dominion was drawn, the ‘war to end[…]
Someone – ironically, a good friend with a pronounced British accent – sent me this tongue-in-cheek article from the Babylon Bee: Study Finds Preaching With A Scottish Accent Results In 300% More Salvations I do have something of a bias and attachment to the Scotch brogue, which I consider – and pardon my provincialism –[…]
