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
(This analysis of Alfred Hitchock’s film noir classic ‘I Confess’ offers some key insights, but, as a caveat, also gives away elements of the plot. So spoiler alert, if you have not yet seen it. Perhaps best to give it a viewing, then read on, Macduff). Editor Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess (1953) is best known[…]
Are old people wise? Have they learned anything from experience? Or are they all curmudgeons, continually grumbling about the young generation and contrasting it unfavourably with the way things used to be? Well, as an old man myself, I may observe that it is possible to be both wise and curmudgeonly at one and the[…]
Disinformation, noun: false information spread deliberately and often covertly (by planting rumours) to deceive in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth. The English word disinformation is a borrowed translation of the Russian dezinformatsiya, derived from the title of a KGB black propaganda department. Josef Stalin coined the term, giving it a French-sounding name to claim it had a[…]
The Ecclesiastical Schola of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, in conjunction with Our Lady of the Wayside School accompanied by a chamber orchestra, are presenting Gabriel Faure’s hauntingly beautiful Requiem, completed in 1900 and which, as the composer himself confessed, is ‘dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest’.[…]
A young mother lightly remonstrated with me about my diatribe on Women’s Day, claiming that the post did not emphasize enough the positive and affirmative. As a Scotch-Irish pessimist, I tended to agree, so, at the same mother’s suggestion, I am posting in supplement this excerpt from the closing address of Pope Saint Paul VI[…]
“When the Son of man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). The following random reflections on atheism address what many think has become the central issue of our day: the radical decline of faith throughout the world dramatically announced by the philosopher Nietzsche at the dawn of the twentieth century, when[…]
Eighth Sunday Per Annum (C) March 3, 2019. No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; for each tree is known by its own fruit (Lk. 6:43-44). ⧾ Our Gospel reading today is a continuation of last Sunday’s reading and again by means of concrete examples Our Lord[…]
No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished. He was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion it became a thing such as even Dante could not[…]
“A sentimentalist is one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.” Oscar Wilde Stuffed animals, flickering candles, cello-wrapped flowers, unfocussed anguish and tears. What’s all this really about? I’m referring to that contemporary and now commonplace phenomenon triggered by yet another violent outrage in yet another unsuspecting community where entire[…]
Come and see Seat of Wisdom’s performance of Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1880 rollicking musical operetta, filled with music, singing, dancing, harmonies galore, glorious costumes, a story of love, loss and redemption, and lots of comic fun, with three performances on the first weekend of March. A hit when first performed on New Year’s[…]
