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
Great is the power of constant repetition So wrote David Foster in his Philosophical Scientists, a slim but powerful treatise dispelling some of the basic mistruths in modern science. Tell a lie often enough to enough people, and it takes on a patina of truth, enough to convince the vincible. This is how Communism works,[…]
What form will the antichrist take? Our Catholic tradition holds that he will be man, filled with evil, under a hypocritical façade of goodness, which will deceive many, but only because they want to be deceived. Beneath that veneer, he will hate Christ, His Church, all He stands for, and, yes, all of us Catholics,[…]
George Cardinal Pell died yesterday, suffering a heart attack after what seemed to be routine hip surgery. Requiescat in pace. He was 81, and lived a long and full life, serving the Church in Australia, appointed archbishop of Melbourne by Pope Saint John Paul II in . He was an advisor to the pontiff,[…]
Canada, and various jurisdictions in Europe and the U.S., plan to make gasoline-powered vehicles, at least of the personal variety, more or less illegal. They will be phased out over time, of course, but ever-more difficult to find, and repair. The problem with everyone and everything going green – and electric vehicles in particular –[…]
Christmas Eve is the traditional feast of Adam and Eve, our primordial parents, considered saints in the Church, brought to heaven on the first Holy Saturday. (There is a beautiful early homily commemorating the event in the Office of Readings for the Triduum). Pope Pius XII, against a Modernist distortion of Genesis, taught in his[…]
What is one to say about the laicization of Father Frank Pavone? (so we will refer to him, even in a posteriori sense, for ease of discourse). The sentence seems sudden and disproportionate, the decree irregular, not only in its text, but also promulgation, as is so much out of the Vatican of late. Yet[…]
Pope Benedict XVI, in his second encyclical, the 2008 Spe Salvi (Salvific Hope) offers a distinction from the Letter to the Hebrews: We as Christians do not place not our hope on the hyparchonton – all the goods and securities of this life, the bigger barns filled with food – but the hyparxin– the true[…]
In his 1987 novel, The Thanatos Syndrome, physician-turned-author Walker Percy imagines a town whose inhabitants are reverting to simianism, that is, becoming more ape-like, a reverse evolution, or devolution, if you will. Their speech diminishes into monosyllabic grunts, they display brutish hypersexuality, not excluding paedophilia. They also begin to euthanize the old and sick. Hence,[…]
A fruitful read by Peter Leithart: Man’s Marian Future. And not only is our future Marian, but so is our past and present, but only because all time is first and foremost Christological. The Saviour sums up all history, the Alpha and the Omega, the One Who makes all things new. But in leading all[…]
The author asks, Why is Everything So Ugly?, and his answer is an intriguing reflection on the lack of beauty in modern New York. It’s a question we all may have pondered in our perambulations through any number of our modern urban landscape: The shoddiness and crassness of buildings of all sorts, endless homogeneous box[…]
