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
On October 17, Canada will begin a new era of decadence. From that day on, cannabis – aka marijuana and pot – will be legal. And it’s all happening without public objection or even complaint. And without Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government bothering to make a compelling case for why it is legalizing a drug with[…]
In my high school years, I became very active on a small, obscure social media website by the name of Tumblr. For anyone who might be unfamiliar, Tumblr is a blogging website which, in recent years, has garnered a reputation for being aggressively feminist and aggressively pro-LGBTQ+. And while this is, admittedly, an accurate description[…]
I have always been an emotional communicant, to this my family and parish priest can attest. The communion this Eucharist establishes is, of course, communion with Christ and each other, even those already in the glory of heaven. Therefore, it establishes us as a single body, one body, in Christ. While we today, too often,[…]
A strange myth has evolved through recent centuries alleging that the Catholic Church was forever the enemy of science, and that it set out during the Middle Ages to strangle scientific thought in its cradle. This is a radical distortion of true history. The case of Galileo, usually cited as an instance of suppressing science,[…]
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[…]
For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil intentions: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man. Mar 7:21-23 As I read this passage from the Gospel last Sunday, I tried to emphasize the list of “evil[…]
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[…]
