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
Is Pope Francis a heretic? So claims the recent letter, signed by various theological luminaries of various stripes, including, to my surprise, the Dominican priest, Father Aidan Nichols, whose sharp mind, I would have thought, might have seen through the limitations of this radical claim. The thing about heresy, as a canonical crime, is that[…]
Philip and James, Apostles, have been celebrated together on this day in May since the revision of the calendar in 1969. Philip is the one who asks our Lord ‘show us the Father, and we will be satisfied’, to which Christ replies, ‘He who has seen me has seen the Father’, that He and the[…]
Today is the memorial of one of the most heroic bishops in the history of the Church, the great Saint Athanasius (+373), mighty foe of Arianism, and the hero of Bd. John Henry Cardinal Newman, whose essays on the fourth-century bishop still make for delightful and edifying reading. It was by studying the early Church[…]
Before we leave the great French-Canadian missionary Saint Marie of the Incarnation in the liturgical rear-view mirror, a word on the consecrated life as better and more ‘objectively perfect’ path to heaven, a truth that, to my own anecdotal evidence, has been rather muted of late in the Church. In the recent memorial of Saint[…]
A blessed and joyous Easter Octave to all our readers, and I hope everyone is enjoying this week of Sundays, indeed, week of Easter Sundays wherein, with Our Lady and the Apostles, we ‘rejoice with great joy’, for our Lord has risen indeed. My apologies for being a bit remiss in posting, for – if[…]
The Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, killing nearly three hundred, wounding five hundred more, have merited near-universal condemnation. Worshipers at Sunday Mass – men, women and children, for such explosives do not discriminate – mangled, maimed, killed. All on the most solemn of Christian feasts. Factions of the ‘religion of peace’ are blamed, with[…]
Nothing is accidental in God’s providence, which guides all things – concretely and immediately – to their final end, in the overall plan He has in mind. But some of these events are more significant than others, offering us signs and wonders, of which Christ Himself warned, pointing us as creatures made in His image[…]
