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
George Weigel, papal biographer and social commentator, certainly has his fixed opinions, and I don’t mind that, even if I may at times disagree just as fixedly. I will leave aside his tendentious, one might say extreme, view of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which comes across as slightly unhinged. Even the Pope – who publicly kissed[…]
There are three ‘dimensions’ to the Church in her pilgrimage through time: The Church suffering, in purgatory; the Church triumphant, in heaven; and the Church militant, here on Earth. These terms are muted in the current Catechism, but the idea is implicit. The Church is not at war in an earthly sense – as Christ’s[…]
The Holy Father recently brought into question the notion of a ‘just war’, which brings to mind a comment from a Catholic in a question-and-answer period after a talk years ago, who declared quite vociferously, ‘Just war is an oxymoron!’. There is a kernel of truth there, for as soon as the dogs of war[…]
The fight for Tradition in the Church, in particular her liturgy, is a long and arduous one that will not cease until the parousia, entering an acute phase in our own day, but all worth the effort. Few have taken up this battle with greater zeal than Dr. Peter Kwasnieski. A list of his essays,[…]
(Here are some thoughts from a talk I gave to the Catholic Teachers’ Guild of Toronto recently on suggestions for books to read in theology and philosophy. This is not so much a ‘top ten’ list – even if some of them would more necessary than others – but rather a primer to ponder, to[…]
The Vatican has just reiterated its support for the vaccine, or, I should say, vaccines, with the Holy Father’s claim that receiving the inoculation, without offering any distinctions, is an ‘act of love…’. Let us unpack this exhortation from Pope Francis, beginning with a definition: Love, as Thomas puts it, is to ‘will the good[…]
A blessed, joyous and grace-filled solemnity of the Annunciation to one and all! Today, the divine Word was made incarnate in the womb of the Virgin Mary, when she gave her fiat, the one who was full of grace became the ark and dwelling place of the source of all grace, and all of creation[…]
A very happy Saint Patrick’s Day, to all our readers, which this year is still toned down by the insidious Covid-19 virus – or, now a year on, our reaction to said virus – playing upon our imaginations in ways that seem to far outstrip its actual lethality. Still, in the midst of all the[…]
On February 28th, the U.S. Senate voted on a bill that would have legalized the ‘right’ for a mother to ‘terminate her pregnancy’ for all nine months of pregnancy, no questions asked. This would effectively turn all of America into New York, or, for that matter, Canada, abortion-wise, a tragic result much worse than Roe[…]
March 5th is the traditional feast of Saint Kieran, an early Irish monk and bishop, one of the ‘Twelve Apostles’ of Ireland, disciples of Saint Finian, who, with the great Saint Patrick, established the Faith in the Emerald Isle of Erin. Sadly, that Faith is retreating like a low tide, and I will not belabor[…]
