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
Veritas vos Liberabit– the Truth Will Set You Free (John 8:32). What does it mean to be free? Freedom is an objective good, and a universal desire. We want to be free. Indeed, we were created for it. Our neighbours to the immediate south proudly proclaim their right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of[…]
The fifty days between Easter and Pentecost are devoted to meditation on the mystery of the resurrection, which is the foundation of Christianity. Just how much that is so came home to me when I was called upon recently to give an address on the faith of the apostolic Church. To begin with, I realized[…]
We are now on the seventh day of the Easter Octave, eight days that are one long, glorious day, so this Friday is treated as a full solemnity, a Sunday, a day to rejoice and sing for joy, so once again, a blessed and joyous Easter to all our readers! The reason for elation is[…]
Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was an eminent author whose many diverse talents as a novelist, short story writer, and essayist were celebrated in Bradley J. Birzer’s superb biography, Russell Kirk: American Conservative. In his youth, Kirk’s intellectual development as a conservative was mainly influenced by the writings of Edmund Burke, Irving Babbitt, Paul Elmer More, Christopher[…]
“I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. John 11: 25-6. Easter 2018. Plaster may be falling on worshippers at St.Peter’s in Rome and Pope Francis may or may not have denied the existence of Hell[…]
I want to begin with a caveat: I’m a fan of Dr. Jordan Peterson. I have listened to his lectures on personality, attended most of his lectures on the Old Testament, read Maps of Meaning, made a start on 12 Rules for Life. His work, his mind, are fascinating. I also think that we can[…]
“Everything not forbidden is compulsory.” The Once and Future King, T.H.White Canada’s morally corrosive socialism is now so far advanced that the totalitarian drift of her various governments, academia and media has been both predictable and inevitable. As with all socialistic governments, its undeclared but ultimate goal is to replace God with the State which, in turn,[…]
The tragic loss of beauty in liturgy we should not dismiss lightly, for if there is one thing we can glean from Scripture, and from the Church’s two millennia of Tradition, it is that we should offer the very best to God in our worship of Him; yet what we often experience, sadly, is tawdriness and[…]
Felix Sarda y Salvany In 1886, during the papacy of Leo XIII, a remarkable book titled Liberalism Is a Sin was written by the Spanish priest Felix Sarda y Salvany (1844 –1916). The main thrust of Sarda’s book was not to indict liberalism in politics so much as liberalism in theology and morals. Having created[…]
When I first left my home in the warm peninsula of southern Ontario to pursue a post-secondary education nothing could have prepared me for the extraordinary cultural hiatus I was to experience. A small institution, isolated in a northern part of the province (editor’s note: the school is in fact still well in ‘southern’ Ontario,[…]
