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
(This is the second article in a series on Newman’s philosophy of education. For the first reflection, may be found here). Newman recognized that knowledge concerning morality cannot be deduced but should be induced, hence his preference for inductive learning. It could even be said that Newman relied upon assumptions not derived inductively, deductively, or[…]
First Argument When skeptics complain bitterly about the so-called “Judaeo-Christian mythology,” one of their most frequent objection is to the incomprehensible cruelty of God as depicted in the story of Abraham and Isaac. What kind of a God is it, they ask, who would instruct the good man Abraham to offer up his son, a[…]
Artificial intelligence (AI) is technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving capabilities.[1] These days one cannot browse the internet or watch television without hearing about AI and its impending impact on the way we live. From education to industry and even in recreation and in our personal lives, it is[…]
CAPPELLA PAPALE FOR THE CANONIZATION OF 123 NEW SAINTS HOMILY OF JOHN PAUL II Sunday 1 October 2000 1. “Your word is truth; sanctify us in your love“ (Gospel Acclamation, Italian Lectionary; cf. Jn 17: 17). This invocation, an echo of Christ’s prayer to the Father after the Last Supper, seems to rise from the host of saints and blesseds whom the[…]
Now and then we hear someone who is not well educated in history complain that Hitler was a Catholic and that the Vatican was complicit in helping the Nazis to murder millions of Jews. It’s true that Hitler was baptized a Catholic, but it did not seem to take – by his own choice. By[…]
For God created man for incorruption, and made him the image of his own eternity, but through the devil’s envy death entered the world, and those who belong to his company experience it (Wis. 2: 23-24). These words from the Book of Wisdom, our first reading, address the problem of suffering; as did our first[…]
The doctrine of papal infallibility was dogmatically defined in the First Vatican Council’s document Pastor Aeternus in 1870. Of course, this gift of the papal office has its origins in the words of Jesus to St. Peter: “And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church,[…]
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, 3 October 2007 Saint Cyril of Alexandria Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today too, continuing our journey following the traces left by the Fathers of the Church, we meet an important figure: St Cyril of Alexandria. Linked to the Christological controversy which led to the Council of Ephesus[…]
A quality that has defined my ten years of priesthood and most of my life is a consistent and deep devotion to St. Joseph. Therefore, I was intrigued to read Joshua Filipetto’s article, St. Joseph’s Perpetual Virginity and the Apocrypha, which made me question some of my opinions regarding St. Joseph. The phrase “the perpetual[…]
(The term ‘utopia’ was coined by the great statesman and martyr, Thomas More, in his 1516 book by the same name. It literally means ‘no place’, but comes to mean a ‘perfect place’, often in an ideal sense. More’s book is taken as a satire on Henry VIII’s England, on the impossibility of building such[…]
