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
Addressing a United Nations conference on health in 1969 following his reception of the William Allen Award,[1] Dr. Jérôme Lejeune, the discoverer of the chromosomal cause of Down Syndrome, one of the world’s leading geneticists, and a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, stated, “Life is a fact and not a desire.” Lejeune[…]
As Christmas approaches and this decade ends, it would be worth our while to consider the current situation we find the world in. The existing social and political landscape in the West reminds me of Charles Dickens’s great novel, A Tale of Two Cities, where he presents a dichotomous view of things: It was the[…]
When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home (Mt. 1:24). ⧾ On this fourth and last Sunday of Advent, the Sacred Liturgy invites us to be one with the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph; that we might learn from them how[…]
(This is a crie-de-couer from a group of long-suffering young people in Quebec, hungering for the fullness of the Faith, of which they feel themselves robbed or, as they put it in their sign-off, disinherited. What they write to their spiritual shepherds could be written anywhere, but has a particular poignance in la belle province,[…]
Second only to St. Boniface, St. Peter Canisius, born in Holland, is known as the apostle of Germany, Switzerland, Holland, and other northern European countries for standing up, triumphantly, against the roaring dogmatic ruptures of the Reformation. In 1897, Pope Leo XIII wrote in high commendation of St. Peter Canisius within his encyclical letter, Militantis[…]
Introduction In 1973 the controversial Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in the United States. In that first year alone, about 700,000 abortions were performed in the country and over 60 million have been performed through 2018. About one in four women will have an abortion by age 45.[1] Since its legalization, abortion[…]
‘Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he’ (Mt. 11:11). ⧾ Today is Gaudete Sunday and the sacred liturgy exhorts us to be joyful as we look forward to the coming celebration of[…]
Our whole human condition is enlightened by understanding the addictive process that leads to impurity. In a sense, all sin is a form of idolatry of the false god of self, but solitary acts of impurity are more obvious and intense forms of turning inward, away from God. Original sin is not an abstract doctrine,[…]
According to the latest data from Statistics Canada, 2,614 Canadians chose death by euthanasia or physician assisted suicide between January and October, 2018. This is a fivefold increase in people choosing to die with the aid of healthcare professionals since medical assistance in dying (MAiD) was legalized in June, 2016. This statistic does not include[…]
Angelus, Second Sunday of Advent, 7 December 2003 1. “Prepare the way of the Lord, clear him a straight path” (Lk 3: 4). This invitation of St John the Baptist resounds strongly on this Second Sunday of Advent. It is a prophetic cry that continues to resound through the centuries. We consider this cry also[…]
