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
The March for Life was in many ways, as always, a rousing success – thousands of zealous pro-lifers of all ages and all walks of life coming together to witness to the dignity and protection of life from conception to natural death, to pray, and celebrate together. I have been going every year since the[…]
On this memorial of Our Lady of Fatima, it is perhaps requisite to say a few words about revelation – A reader wrote recently that Catholics spend too much time on private sort, and not enough on public, that is, the Deposit of Faith, Scripture and Tradition, all that God has revealed to one and[…]
Our society is fragmenting, a tragic process accelerated of late, and it is incumbent on us to maintain some level of social cohesion, to reflect on what it means to ‘belong’ to any given society, and whether it be worth it do so. What is a Canadian, a Catholic, or even a member of your[…]
On this day, May 8, in 1978, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler stood on the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest, at 29,031.7 feet. To get any higher, you’d have to fly. Everest long remained unconquered, and was only scaled for the first time by Tenzig Norgay and Edmund Hillary in 1953. What made[…]
Roald Dahl (+1990) is being mauled, along with Dr. Seuss (+1991), and, as the Cat in the Hat might declare, we should be appalled, galled, palled, if not stonewalled. On the Ginsu chopping block are Agatha Christie (+1976), P.G. Wodehouse (+1975), Ian Fleming (+1964) and any number of deceased authors on the historical horizon. Any[…]
The old joke has it that Milton wrote Paradise Lost after he got married; and when his wife died, he penned the sequel, Paradise Found. In joco veritas. The joke is only funny – if funny it be, and not tragic – because all too often marriage does not seem to bring the happiness we[…]
Lies come in all types – Half-lies, white lies, truthful lies, lying truths, and the ‘damned lies’ of statistics. Saint Thomas, following Augustine, defines a lie as a falsehood told with the intention of deceit, and he distinguishes them based on their intent: Jocose, for fun; officious, for a good reason; and malicious, for evil[…]
Pretense: A false appearance or action intended to deceive. A professed but feigned reason or excuse; a pretext. Something imagined or pretended. (https://www.wordnik.com/words/pretense) What term does one use for what happened at the cathedral of Saint John Lateran last week, on Tuesday, April 18th? A group of Anglican divines – not priests, still less bishops[…]
Today is a national holiday in England – as they commemorate the semi-legendary Saint George, martyr for the Faith, slayer of the dragon and rescuer of princesses. This is also, by one of those remarkable coincidences of providence, the birth and death of their greatest playwright, yes, the inimitable William Shakespeare, who both entered and[…]
These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you – that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.’ Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures…. You are witnesses of these things (Lk. 24: 44-48). As we continue[…]
