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
The Communist Party cannot be neutral toward religion. It stands for science, and all religion is opposed to science. ~ Joseph Stalin The religions are all alike, no matter what they call themselves. They have no future. ~ Adolf Hitler Our God is none other than the masses of the Chinese people. ~ Mao Zedong[…]
When a confessor hears the same sins repeated over and over again, a thousand million times over, he may begin to wonder if there’s any hope left for the human race. I guess that’s where faith kicks in. A couple of years ago I was deeply touched reading mystical conversations of Alicja Lenczewska (†2012) with[…]
He was a good man, in the old Scottish Presbyterian phrase, God-ward and man-ward. – Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary Leslie Hamilton Neatby who died in 1997 had been born in 1902. It is thus not much of a chronological exaggeration to place him in the reign of Queen Victoria, who died in 1901. Moreover,[…]
As cliché as it sounds, we are living in unprecedented times. This is no less true in colleges and universities than it is elsewhere. Most students wishing to continue their studies have been required to take classes, entirely or in part, online for months; this situation is likely to persist for the foreseeable future –[…]
Please introduce yourself and your relationship with Faith and Music. My name is Thomas Crow and I am a Catholic Composer from Wakefield in England. My Mum is Catholic and my Dad is Anglican, but my sister and I were brought up Catholic, serving at Mass for many years. My Dad has played the organ[…]
If you were to consult a catalogue of saints, you would not find the name of Zacchaeus listed. Do you recall who he was—the wealthy tax collector who was so short that he had to climb a sycamore tree to see Jesus when he passed through Jericho. Was he if fact a saint? I would[…]
This is the eve of All Saints’ known affectionately in our era as ‘Halloween’, even if many may not knows the derivative of this now-mostly-pagan holiday, with ghouls and ghosts and bloodied zombies. The solemnity of All Saints goes back to its official institution by Pope Gregory III (731 – 741), during what we know[…]
I recently returned from a trip to visit my family in Montreal and spend some time with old friends in the countryside nearby. Across the city and the small towns I visited I saw rainbow decals and drawings in windows. These weren’t gender ideological rainbows; nor were they reminders of the covenant. Underneath most of[…]
On Wednesday May 27, 2020 Pope Francis advanced the cause for canonization of twelve holy men and women, one of them being the Venerable Father Michael Joseph McGivney, an American Catholic priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal lay organization.[1] There is always much joy to be experienced by[…]
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind…. You shall love your neighbour as you love yourself (Mt. 22:40). ⧾ Our Gospel text contains what is sometimes referred to as the Great Commandment; encompassing both the love of God and the love[…]
