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
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704), bishop of Meaux, lived in a time shortly after the Reformation. A bishop of much lustre, Bossuet frequented Versailles, preaching before court and king, was tutor to the Dauphin, and even held correspondence with such a philosophical giant as Leibniz for a time. His oratorical skills have been ranked ahead of[…]
Speaking to her beloved Romeo, Juliet says, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet.” In this famous Shakespearean line, Juliet poetically testifies to the conventionality of human names. That is, human words, whether written or spoken, signify what they signify thanks to our common[…]
“1917 was the Balfour Declaration establishing Israel for the nations, 2017 was Trump’s declaration.” Yakov Hayman, chairman of the United Temple Movement It’s been a year of important centennials commemorating that watershed year 1917. A year marking Fatima, the Russian Revolution and the Balfour Declaration – the latter of which has been[…]
Walker Percy (1916-1990), born and raised in the South, was a member of that rare breed of southern Catholic writers. His grandfather and later his father committed suicide. Then followed a car accident in which his mother died, Percy concluding on his own that this was yet another suicide. Out of the ashes of such[…]
Spare a thought for millennials, perhaps the most persecuted sector of our increasingly ignorant and spiritually impoverished society. Denied God and the firm Christian teaching that would help them to make sense of the world in which they live, they are left to their own devices. No wonder they often appear so lost. Pressured and[…]
Victory in battle does not depend on who has the largest army; it is the Lord’s power that determines the outcome (1 Maccabaeus 3:9) Presumably the fact of the Our Lady`s extraordinary apparition on 15th August 1920 is not known at all by the Catholics belonging to Anglo-Saxon culture. No wonder, even in Poland it[…]
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer. Jim Carrey It’s as if an atomic bomb has been detonated at the corner of Hollywood and Vine, replete with a mushroom cloud and ongoing fallout. Interesting timing too. Mere days[…]
Recently I was startled to realize, it being so uneasy a reminder of my own mortality, that the eminent French philosopher Jacques Maritain has been dead going on half a century. I never met him in person. I was bold enough at the age of sixteen, when he was well into his seventies, to send[…]
On November 1, Governor General (GG) Julie Payette was a keynote speaker at the Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa. She touched upon a variety of issues including climate change, horoscopes, the origin of life, alternative medicine and divine “intervention.” In this piece I would like to focus on her comments regarding religion and[…]
Mere days after Our Lady’s final apparition at Fatima on October 13, 1917, the Bolsheviks took power over Russia and quickly established a totalitarian communist dictatorship. Suddenly, the infrastructure was in place for the fulfillment of her prediction that Russia would spread its errors throughout the world. According to the Russian calendar, the date of[…]
