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
(Here is a re-posting of some thoughts on Saint Patrick’s Day. Much has happened since then, and this will be a muted celebration, with pubs closed across the world, even in the Emerald Isle, the music gone silent, except, we may hope, in homes and small gatherings. For we must not give in to a[…]
The headlines read like something out of an apocalyptic novel, written, say, a decade or so ago: Trudeau’s son elected Prime Minister and foists death-on-demand upon a dominion, only to be ravaged by a deadly plague: Every sports league shuts down, the NBA, MLB and, gasp, Canadian’s own beloved NHL. Churches in Rome and across[…]
Physician-turned-author Walker Percy’s final novel, The Thanatos Syndrome, published in 1987, tells the odd tale of a town wherein the ‘elites’ are devolving – or is that de-evolving? – the minds of its citizens into ape-like status by adding ‘sodium ions’ to the water supply. As they act more like chimpanzees, the townspeople become ever-more[…]
Due to some technical and other issues, we’re a day late on re-posting this piece, , on the last martyr of the ‘Reformation’ – a term which I generally put in scare quotations, for the real reformation was the also-inaptly-named Catholic ‘Counter-Reformation’, led by the Society of Jesus, when they were all fresh and sound;[…]
In the most troubled of times, God raises up saints as exemplars and intercessors, and Frances of Rome is no exception. Born into privilege in 1384 into a Europe already ravaged by the Black Death, which peaked from 1347 to 1351, Frances lived through tumultuous times, with Rome ravaged by the effects of the ‘Great[…]
Napoleon once quipped that men live by imagination – by which, we may surmise, he meant that they live more in the future than the present, of what may yet be, instead of what is. The two ways we as wayfaring humans in a fragile landscape are by the passions of hope and fear: We[…]
What more need be said, for the visuals speak a thousand words? Vanguards of police standing mutely and idly by, while ‘protesters’ – armed terrorists, more to the point – light fires on public train tracks, blocking trains, and even, it seems, trying to set them alight: WATCH: Anti-pipeline protestors are resorting to extreme lengths,[…]
A blessed and grace-filled Lenten season to all our readers, beginning with this solemn commemoration of Ash Wednesday to launch us on our way through our own ‘forty days’ in the metaphorical desert. There are no end to the resources to help us in our greater focus on the three ‘acts of religion’ – fasting,[…]
The plot thickens around affaire de Jean Vanier. I did not know he admitted to the sexual liasons in 2016, that the women had made their testimony, but that Vanier claimed that the relationships were consensual; as we all know by now, however, that word is fraught and fragile, which is why we have –[…]
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum dicendum est – speak nothing but good of the dead, first attributed to Chilon of Sparta in Greek, we would not take as a universal precept, but it holds in the main. We rightly condemn the heinous deeds of such tyrants as Diocletian, Hitler and Stalin, but for the more[…]
