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
Beelzebub, mentioned in 2 Kings, was a prince of demons worshiped by the Philistines, whose most famous warrior was Goliath killed in battle with a slingshot to the head by the Jewish boy David. The Philistines probably occupied an area of modern Palestine. In 1714 the Dutch writer Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733) published in English his[…]
(On this feast of the Visitation, it is fitting that we post this reflection from contributor Rebecca Jacobson on a pilgrimage she took to the primary Marian shrine in England, Our Lady of Walsingham. Wherever you live, make some sort of devotion – even if it cannot be a full pilgrimage! – to the blessed[…]
G.K. Chesterton is known as the most often quoted of any writer . . . and the least often read. It’s easy to see why that is so; merely consider these clever statements: A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.[1] It is terrible to contemplate[…]
I hope this review might provide a double service to readers. I am excited to promote both a new novel, which provides the core subject of this piece, as well as the existence of a new, Catholic press, which makes it possible to read such novels. My first business, however, is to write of the[…]
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption to sonship. (Rom. 8:15). ⧾ Each year, on the Sunday following the Solemnity of Pentecost we celebrate the Mystery of the Most Blessed Trinity, the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It[…]
This year’s commencement speaker for Benedictine College, a small Catholic school in Atchison, Kansas, stirred up a heap of controversy from the media. Harrison Butker, a devout Catholic husband, father, and 3x Super Bowl champion kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs addressed the 2024 graduates with great humility and palpable depth. In his speech, Butker[…]
Today is the memorial of Our Lady Help of Christians, a title that seems first to have been used by Saint John Chrysostom, patriarch of Constantinople, in 345, and invoked ever since. In the latter half of the 16th century, Pope Saint Pius V urged Catholics to plead for her intercession in the war against[…]
Because jokes are not told in the Bible, some people wrongly suppose that religion must be a humourless business. So far is this from true that we find some of the finest nuggets of humour among religious savants. Archbishop Fulton Sheen, for example, offered many. Here’s a good one: “Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being[…]
John Stansifer has written a fascinating and inspiring life – I could scarcely put it down – on Father Emil Kapaun, an army chaplain who died in this 23rd day of May in a prisoner of war camp in North Korea in 1951. The Korean war – technically known as a ‘police action’ – was[…]
J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750) , composed a series of cantatas for the Church’s liturgical year during his time as kappelmeister and kantor at Saint Thomas church in Leipzig, from 1723. He wrote over 200 of them for every Sunday and feast day – one per week, unbelievably – and we have them all, by[…]
