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
Hilaire Belloc was born on this day, July 27th, 1870, 150 years ago, making this his sesquicentennial birthday, which we hope is a bit more joyful for the reader than Canada’s own damp squib of a commemoration of that anniversary in 2017, led by the dull, bland, politically correct Trudeau. On the other end of[…]
The Muslims know how to pick their days. But, then, so does God. As mentioned a few days ago, for the first time in nearly a century, the ancient church of Hagia Sophia, one of the glories of Christendom, constructed ad maiorem Dei gloriam in the 6th century under Emperor Justininan, is once again echoing[…]
On this day, in 1925, a young German veteran, bitter in soul from the humiliating defeat of his nation in the recent war ‘to end all wars’, published a vitriolic book, Mein Kampf – My Struggle (or My War), while languishing in prison after a failed mini-rebellion in Munich (the ‘Beer Hall Putsch’) two years[…]
One of the primary tasks of a free citizenry is to resist encroaching tyranny – even of the ‘soft’ variety – for once we’ve given up our rights, ‘tis very difficult to get them back’ On Tuesday, July, the 14th, the memorial of Saint Camillus de Lellis, patron of the sick, it will be mandatory[…]
While we commemorate Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a few other anniversaries on this historically significant day, which are all sort of providentially linked to Carmel and Our Lady in some way: In 622, the Muslims count the beginning of their own calendar, really their own history, (hence it is year ‘zero’ for them), when[…]
Newton’s Third Law has many applications, as does Hegel’s dialectic of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, in that eternal struggle of the World Spirit – even in the ecclesial and theological realm. For the Church, in her earthly manifestation, reels from crisis to crisis, seeming to totter, even approach collapse, but rising stronger, like a phoenix from the ashes,[…]
Today we remember Saint Henry, Emperor of the Romans and King of the Italians, the last of the ‘Ottonian’ line – deriving from the original Emperor, Otto I. Henry was from Bavaria – whence Josef Ratzinger would also hail a millennium on – who became Holy Roman Emperor in 1014 until his death on this[…]
(The following was recently published on LifeSite, in response to the setting up of a marijuana store – a ‘pot shop’ – in the small community in which the writer lives, and it may prove of interest to readers here, if you have not already perused. The argument for why alcohol is permitted, but drugs[…]
(This article was first published on June 26th, on LifeSite, but is still relevant, given the recent interview with Archbishop Vigano and Phil Lawler, which further entrenches his position. I still stand by the claim that it is a misuse of the concept of the sensus fidelium (or sensus fidei, as he puts it) that[…]
A joyous Independence Day to all our American readers, one that may be more muted than days of yore in the troubled United States. There are any number of factions developing in the once-United States, but all can be traced back to those who accept the Christian, or at least rational principles underlying the republic,[…]
