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
At the World Climate Conference in Katowice, Poland, which wrapped up on December 15th, 196 countries – well, representatives from said countries, including our own ‘climate specialist’ Catherine McKenna – have enthusiastically endorsed battling climate change, that it is real, and that we must reduce carbon emissions by 30%, or is it 50%? Activists are[…]
You may have heard of CRISPR babies, which may phonically sound rather macabre, but the acronym stands for the rather prosaic Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats, a type of genetic editing first developed in Japan in 1987 by Yoshizume Ishino at Osaka University, working on the ubiquitous e.coli bacteria, and now very much in vogue[…]
On a rather chilly morning on a hillside outside what is now Mexico City, in the year of our Lord 1531, while the Protestant ‘Reformation’ was wreaking spiritual and societal havoc across the Atlantic in Europe – Thomas More and John Fisher were less than four years from the chopping block – the Virgin Mary appeared –[…]
If there is one thing universal in inductive research, it is doubt. So read the textbook, through which I was first introduced to the statistical method, by one R. Parker-Bausell, which I still use in my own teaching. We are never done, finished, complete in science, for there is always more to learn, and every[…]
A blessed and joyous solemnity of Christ the King to all our readers, a feast first put in the calendar in 1925 by Pope Pius XI. The pontiff had first issued the encyclical Ubi Arcani Dei Consilio – literally, ‘when the counsel of God was hidden’ – in 1922 in the aftermath of the insane carnage[…]
Naheed Nenshi is upset. The long-time Calgary mayor is exercised over their lost Olympic bid, or should I say, the bid that never was, with the people voting overwhelmingly against it in a plebiscite, and the city council wisely following suit. Mr. Nenshi apparently expected the cash cow that goes by the nebulous name of[…]
Malibu is burning, and we may be inclined to see some sort of divine sign in the conflagration, not least in the loss of the ironically-named razed city of ‘Paradise’. We should pray for the dead, the wounded, the sorrowing. Is God saying something here? True, there are no ‘accidents’ in God’s providence, for the[…]
We should pause and reflect – and pray, a verb which you will not often hear on the CBC – as we commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the end of what was called at the time the ‘War to End All Wars’, the ‘Great War’. It was only after the even greater conflict two decades[…]
Pope Saint Leo the Great, who reigned from 440 until his death on this day in 461, was known for many things. With his wise mind, his magnanimous soul and zeal, he helped solidify the papacy, and the role of the ‘Holy Father’, which would be further clarified by subsequent pontiffs, not least Gregory, also[…]
A blessed feast of the Dedication of the Cathedral of Saint John Lateran to all our readers! The highest-ranking church in all Christendom, the principal church of the Pope, it is the mother of all other churches. As the re-posted article by Terry McDermott points out, the church was first dedicated in 324 by Pope[…]
