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
Jesus provides us with a motive for acting, viz., the love of God, which in practical terms produces a love of our neighbours. The behaviour of someone whose decisions come from such love will be different from those who act out of self-interest. Consider finances for instance. Where love is the activating principle, a business[…]
Anyone who believes that God is the Author of all life and loves us unconditionally (and even many who don’t believe this) would instinctively endorse the notion that black lives do indeed matter. How can we not? Recent events have now persuaded many of us that black lives matter more than others on planet Earth[…]
Karol Wojytla, the man who would be known to history as John Paul II, was a true man, his character forged in the fire of suffering, elevated and perfect by the grace of God, to which he corresponded magnanimously from his youth. Even his obvious intellectual and spiritual stature had its roots in his sheer[…]
A clever writer[1] once observed that Jesus never made the mistake of qualifying any of his statements: “Sell you possessions, and give the money to the poor, . . .” “If your eye offend you, tear it out, . . .” “Take up your cross and follow me.” One might add the closing line from[…]
On this mountain the Lord of Hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food (Is. 25:6). Once again this Sunday the lessons of the Mass teach us about the Kingdom of God; and the truth and reality of this Kingdom is conveyed to us by means of an image, a banquet; an[…]
(In light of this being the feast of Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman, a reprisal of this fine piece from Carl Sundell seemed well in order🙂 John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) was a priest of the Church of England who, after much agonizing, found his way into the Church of Rome at the age of[…]
Over the past week, Pope Francis has issued not one but two relatively “major” documents, along with the standard fare of other routine Papal speeches, homilies, etc. which come out at the pace of about a document a day, on average. A Catholic who attempts to keep abreast of Papal teaching but has limited time[…]
Much of the pleasure in writing about John Henry Newman comes from the opportunity to quote his exquisite prose. Consider this statement from a sermon he preached as a young cleric in 1826: . . . men often regard Christianity as a slavish system which is prejudicial to the freedom of thought, the aspirations of[…]
If a Supreme Court Justice said it was all right to abort your baby, then it was all right! For women everywhere and particularly for millennial women such public permission has sufficed, justifying the taking of an innocent life from its mother’s womb at any stage during pregnancy. In fact, since the U.S. Supreme Court’s[…]
Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus (Phil. 6:14). ⧾ Our second reading includes an ancient canticle or hymn that summarizes for us the Mystery of the Cross: Christ Jesus…emptied himself… He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death – death on a cross (Phil. 2:6-11). This[…]
