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 Saturday, October 5, 2024, the Global Men’s Rosary Crusade gathers in Toronto. This is the third year that faithful Canadian Catholic men will pray fifteen decades of the Holy Rosary in public at Queen’s Park, home of Ontario’s provincial legislature. The Crusade is part of a worldwide initiative started in Poland and the Republic[…]
PROCLAMATION OF ST THÉRÈSE OF THE CHILD JESUS AND THE HOLY FACE AS A “DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH” HOMILY OF POPE JOHN PAUL II Sunday, 19 October 1997 “Nations shall come to your light” (Is 60: 3). The echo of Epiphany already resounds in the words of the prophet Isaiah as a fervent expectation and[…]
Michaelmas of 1724 – the 29th of September, now the feast of all the Archangels – saw the first performance of J.S. Bach’s cantata, Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, (Lord God, we all praise thee), honouring the great Saint Michael, ‘he who is like God’. The text of the cantata was Paul Eber, Lutheran[…]
In 1942, Catholic priest and apologist Ronald Knox remarked: A quite new hatred of the Catholic religion is growing up within my own lifetime – a hatred of its strict principles on certain points, which our neighbors … dislike as being a criticism of their own conduct, and a criticism which in their heart of[…]
“I pray that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” John 17: 20-21 The triumphant rise of modern atheism, which today has for its object to threaten[…]
(Today, September 17th, marks the 800th anniversary of Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata of Our Lord. Here are the words of Father Attard, and one may also peruse the reflection by Father Thomas Weinandy in today’s CatholicThing. Editor) Today, Tuesday 17 September 2024, is the feast of the Stigmata of our Seraphic Father[…]
In honour of this feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, here is a beautiful motet by Giaches (1535 ~ 1595), which dates back to 1581, when so many were rejecting the Cross as the efficacious sign of our Faith.
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, 19 September 2007 Saint John Chrysostom (1) Dear Brothers and Sisters, This year is the 16th centenary of St John Chrysostom’s death (407-2007). It can be said that John of Antioch, nicknamed “Chrysostom”, that is, “golden-mouthed”, because of his eloquence, is also still alive today because of[…]
As we are joyfully celebrating the feast of the Holy Name of Mary, on this twelfth of September, it is important that we see and value her name as our hope. You may rightly ask: But how is this so? My humble answer is found in that beautiful 2007 encyclical written by Pope Benedict XVI[…]
Most people regard religion as a constructive and positive force in human history, while some regard it as a false and negative force. Naturally, that depends on which religion you are talking about, and even on whether or not you happen to be religious. Some old religions, and perhaps some new ones, appear to be[…]
