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
Citing “the public interest in the administration of justice”, the law society claims that the personal views and preferences of an “overwhelming majority” of lawyers must be imposed on a private Christian school. This is majority coercion directed against a minority. The law society violates the rule of law and the Charter and attacks the[…]
Today, on the first official day of summer, we celebrate two martyrs, John Cardinal Fisher and Thomas More, as well as a bishop, Paulinus of Nola, a poet, senator, and former married man, who, after his wife’s death, became a priest, and was elevated to oversee the diocese of Bordeaux in southern France in the[…]
Ontario is the most populous of Canada’s ten provinces, with about 13.5 million souls, accounting for nearly 40 percent of the population of the country, most of whom live within a one or two hour drive from the border with the United States. The province has the nation’s capital, Ottawa, as well as its largest[…]
Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001) was early in life an agnostic American philosopher of Jewish descent (he referred to himself as a pagan) who was received into the Catholic Church at the age of 96, two years before his death. Adler’s education was eclectic, having achieved a doctorate in psychology from Columbia University (where he taught[…]
(The author here, a professor who wishes to remain anonymous for professional reasons, strikes a note of caution concerning the popular Dr. Jordan Peterson, guru and sage to so many young people. For another perspective, see Scott Ventureyra’s recent article, as well as today’s Nota in Brevis) Catholics whom I admire, like Bishop Barron, have[…]
(tFollowing upon her first instalment in this three part-series, here Paula Adamick charts the advance of the feminist movement through the mid-20th century by three of its most prominent avatars …) On Christmas Day, an unidentified blond in St.Peter’s Square in Rome had her own Christmas message to deliver to the world. As a member[…]
”This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. Deuteronomy[…]
In this three-part series, Paula Adamick explores the impact and legacy of the lives and lies of some of feminism’s most influential – some might say infernal – icons … In an edition of 60 Minutes a few years ago, CBS’s Norah O’Donnell interviewed Cardinal Sean O’Malley. A Capuchin and the archbishop of Boston, O’Malley[…]
A blessed and grace-filled solemnity of Corpus Christi to one and all, a feast that has a long and varied history dating back to the early Middle Ages, with Saint Juliana of Liege (+1258), who, based on private revelations from God, advocated for a day outside of Lent (for on Holy Thursday, we also commemorate[…]
We are all aware, too well aware, of how quickly things change. Last-year’s cell phone is already an antique, and a ten-year-old computer is virtually prehistoric. We’re told, and believe, that the computer just purchased is obsolete before we’re out of the store. Once, when I was teaching in Saskatoon, I was walking to class[…]
