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
People who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. William Penn In the shadow of the Climate Change conference in Kadowice last month, it appears the Progressive world has decided that ‘subtlety’ in advancing their cause is no longer working for them. This is 2019, after all! And given that decades of[…]
“On the deepest, ontological level, it is true that where there is Neurosis there is something wrong with Faith, Hope, and Charity.” Karl Stern Karl Stern (1906-1975) was a German psychiatrist of the psychoanalytical school founded by Sigmund Freud. Born a Jew, in his teen years he became an atheist, but later reverted to Orthodox[…]
In a letter of 11 December 1944 C. S. Lewis mentions five “shining examples of human holiness”. Along with Saint Francis, George Herbert, George MacDonald, “and even burly old Dr. Johnson” we find John Bunyan. Lewis admired John Bunyan, whose The Pilgrim’s Progress Lewis knew wel1.[2] He spent part of the Christmas holiday of 1929[…]
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10) For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power[…]
His mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation (Lk 1:4). Once again on this third Sunday of Advent we encounter the figure of John the Baptist, “the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight His paths.’” In the Liturgy of Advent John bears[…]
Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad, is the story of the war waged by Greece against the city of Troy. Unable to vanquish the Trojans on the battlefield, the Greeks came up with a ploy. They built a gigantic wooden horse, filled its belly with soldiers, left it on the beach and boarded their ships, pretending[…]
There are two primary things that totalitarian regimes seek to control, and whose take-over are themselves a sign of creeping totalitarianism in any society: The first is education, and the younger they get access to our minds, the better. The second is the media, newspapers and radio, and, now the vast ethereal space known as[…]
A propos of nothing, something grabbed my attention the other night, causing me to revisit a phenomenon that has long since disappeared from the public radar. It was one of those public service documentaries, the sort we haven’t seen in decades. Titled Perversion for Profit and made in 1965, it appeared on TCM. All about[…]
I come from the Holy Lands of Ontario. These are the small towns in which the Irish settled over the 19th century, and built imposing Catholic churches that became a centrepiece for the community. The phrase “the Holy Lands of Ontario” was coined by Edward Jackman. O. P., in an essay in the 1988 collection[…]
Is it the canary in the coal-mine, or the bull in an economic china shop? The closure of the Oshawa GM manufacturing plant – which has been making cars since just after the Second World War in 1953 – will put nearly 3000 people out of high-paying work, all them soon to be pounding the[…]
