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
Today marks the official beginning of the campaign to elect the next Prime Minister, on October 21st, five short weeks, praise God, rather than the endless politicking south of the border. As Canada is still a constitutional monarchy, the current holder of the office of Prime Minister must approach the Head of State, Queen Elizabeth[…]
It is difficult to believe that it was a full eighteen years ago I first heard of the attack – initially reported as a bombing – on the World Trade Centre buildings, on my car radio, an old, donated Pontiac 6000, its navy-blue paint mottled and rusted, but still running fine, outside the former convent,[…]
The climate-change crowd seem to be testing the bounds of sanity and, pardon the pun, good taste. A Swedish professor, a certain Magnus Söderlund has suggested that one way to fight climate change – reducing our dependence on carbon-heavy meat products – is to develop a taste for human flesh, that is, cannibalism. Macabre as this[…]
On a more positive note on how universities may best fulfill what they were originally founded to do, please do feel free to peruse this article on the thought of Blessed – soon, Deo volente, Saint – John Henry Cardinal Newman, whose Idea of a University offers the architectonic framework of how one should implement[…]
A few thoughts on this Saturday morning in early September, which I hope finds all our readers well. Peruse Paula Adamick’s take on the Church in China, a troubling harbinger of what the future may hold, which is a lot like the past: A Church dominated by secular forces, with their own messianic zeal, a[…]
I just heard on the CBC that two million Canadians have just begun their course of studies at university, and my mind boggled. I knew that a whole cohort of people – mainly young, but also the old and in-between – were trotting off to what are still endearingly called ‘higher studies, but two million?[…]
Pope Francis plans to appoint 13 new Cardinals in a consistory on October 5th. There are currently 215 members of the sacred college, of whom 180 of whom are voting –that is, they are under the canonical limit of having reached the venerable limit of being octogenarian. Ageism! I dare say, for there are any[…]
Students have now flocked to university, where they will be subjected to four years of indoctrination in various aspects of modernism, for want of a better and more accurate term. What they will not receive is any sort of integral formation based on the truth, which is to say, with more accuracy perhaps, Catholic. I will have[…]
Before we leave today behind, we should mention that this September 1st marks the 80th anniversary of the German invasion of Poland in 1939, marking the anniversary of the beginning – insofar as such may be discerned – of the cataclysm we now know as World War II, a far greater hecatomb than the First,[…]
A blessed Saturday of Our Lady to all our readers. The custom of dedicating ferial Saturdays – those with no other memorials or feasts on them, and outside of other liturgical seasons – is a fine one, recalling the Mother of our God and Lord the day before the day dedicated to our God and[…]
