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
When Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was crusading against the Vladimir Putin government by investigating one crime after another, she had imagined the damning headlines in her newspaper would change her world. She’d always assume that her latest expose of corruption, gangland murder or political crime would bring the Putin government down. Surely this time would[…]
It’s a real mess, and I assume that it’s going to get messier. In the past few days I have had many discussions, read many articles, listened to many podcasts, and given several homilies on the scandal of clerical sexual immorality and its concomitant cover-ups. Being a young priest (I was born in 1987 and[…]
I post this final report, for now, on my recent pilgrimage, and my final destination, the eternal city to which all roads lead, Roma. These few words may be read in light of the recent revelations that there seems to be something rotten in the state of the Vatican, wherein much prayer and purification are required.[…]
A blessed memorial of the great Saint Augustine (354-430), bishop and doctor of the Church, and perhaps the greatest theologian in her history (although, like the toss-up between Mozart and Bach and others in the realm of music, there are any number of ‘greatest hits’ of theologians, even if Augustine can be said to have[…]
For all shall come to nothing that proceeds not from God. The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis In the beginning, the Lord God instructed Man to go forth and multiply. And He meant it! Going forth and increasing was God’s primary natural law – the law of life itself begetting life. God also said that He made[…]
In 2014 there was an incident in Colorado that would jolt the sensibilities of many older Americans. At one school district, students organized to protest a proposal to increase in the curriculum a patriotic awareness of American history (a recent survey indicates 40% of the public could not name one of the five civil rights[…]
At the climax of Luke’s passion narrative, we see Jesus hanging between two criminals. One of the criminals mocks Jesus, but the other responds, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man[…]
The powerlessness of Jesus. In a word, it is one of our modern heresies, but it lies hidden in the heart because it is logically absurd, and we are embarrassed to admit that we could simultaneously believe in the divinity of Christ while denying His power. Yet it happens all the time. Why are so[…]
Already suffering the sustained heat of this long, hot summer, Catholics everywhere have also been stunned by the sudden fall from grace of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and the strange sense of foreboding that goes with it. Is this a turning point in Church history, they’re wondering? Has Holy Mother Church reached a nadir? And if[…]
I am hurtling in a high speed train from Glasgow to London, with a heavy heart saying farewell to my native land, a sentiment that should live within us all. It is the memorial of Saint Charbel Maklouf, a Lebanese priest, ascetic and mystic, as well as the vigil of Saint James the Greater, whose[…]
