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
They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abad’don, and in Greek he is called Apol’lyon. (Revelations, 9:11) The Society of Physicians of Quebec – that formerly Catholic province – has advocated for the euthanasia of ‘disabled’ children. And one is hardly surprised, for once the[…]
Hilary Mantel, English novelist died last week at the age of 70. Her fame – or infamy, depending on one’s perspective – rests largely upon her ‘Wolf Hall’ sagas of the Reformation period, made even more popular by their being produced as a lush film series by the BBC back in 2009. According to reviews,[…]
Get ready to have your credit, bank and driver’s card digitalized, along with your passport and health records, vaxx and booster status, and so on. Canadians expect to be able to access any government service, at any time and on any device. Most citizens agree that personal information should be shared between GC departments to[…]
A blessed and glorious feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross! Also called the Triumph of the Cross and, at times, the ‘Invention’ of the Cross, in the original sense of that term, this feast commemorates the ‘finding’ of the true Cross of Christ by Saint Helena, the mother of Constantine, in 326, a[…]
Queen Elizabeth has died, after a reign of 70 years, at the age of 96, at the royal residence of Balmoral, Scotland, on this, Our Lady’s Birthday. Requiescat in pace, and we may hope and pray that she, although never embracing the true Faith, availed herself from what faith she did have of God’s mercy[…]
Ah, the Emerald Isle, the cradle of Catholicism for the British Isles, land of heroes and martyrs, of rousing and melancholic music, of large boisterous families, sending out missionaries across Europe and the world, what has become of ye’? Two windows into the tragedy that is Ireland, and her precipitous loss of the Faith: First,[…]
I had no idea that recently-deceased Archbishop Rembert Weakland was almost single-handedly responsible for the abolition of Gregorian chant in the Benedictine Order, which had been praising God with the ancient song from time immemorial. As John Byron Kuhner recounts, Abbot Weakland, then primate of the Order, confronted Paul VI, refusing to submit to his[…]
As the title of this thread has it, they’re starting to slip the bugs in. No, no, not computer bugs, which have been around for decades, but real bugs, with antennae and thoraxes with weird-coloured blood. Intriguing how they call it cricket flour, as they’re so ground up, you can hardly tell you’re eating insects.[…]
Catholics are called to live a sacramental life, which means seeing everything as a sign, in its own way pointing to God, Who made all things – especially us – so that they might return to Him. The world is charged with the grandeur of God, wrote Hopkins in his 1877 poem, and over that[…]
(In light of the feasts of Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe, here is a re-post of a reflection I wrote upon my own visit there as part of a parish pilgrimage to Poland in 2015). To be honest, I was not fully aware until I came to Auschwitz a few years ago while on pilgrimage[…]
