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
But Jesus passed through the midst of them and went on His way (Lk. 4:30). ⧾ Our Gospel reading today is a continuation of last Sunday’s Gospel. Having returned to Nazareth where He had been brought up, Our Lord encounters the opposition which is often experienced when the Gospel is first preached or preached in[…]
Pope Benedict XVI, in his series on great figures in the Church’s history, dedicated no less than three addresses to the life and thought of the great Saint Thomas Aquinas, back in June of 2010. For those keen to learn more of the great Doctor – and who would not? – here they are for[…]
(On this day, January 25th, in 1533, Henry VIII secretly married his paramour Anne Boleyn, for whom he had thrown off not only his true wife, Catherine of Aragon, but the papacy itself, to gain what he coveted. And so began the destruction of the Church in England. Anne would be beheaded on Henry’s order[…]
The final, fourth movement of Bach’s partita for violin in D minor, composed between 1717 and 1720, is often called ‘the chaconne’, even if other chaconnes exist. (Just as Saint Thomas’ Summa is called the Summa, amongst any number of others who tried). Some have described the chaconne as amongst the greatest 13 or so[…]
It must be admitted that sermons can be awfully boring. I know that my heart sinks when I hear a priest begin, “In the first reading. . . .” After summarizing what we have already just heard, he moves on: “And in the second reading. . . .” Finally, when he says, “And in the[…]
The power of government rests on ignorance of the people, and it knows this, and therefore will always resist enlightenment. Leo Tolstoy Earlier this month, Tucker Carlson declared that historians will one day come to view his country’s handling of the Covid pandemic as the greatest crime in American history. The Fox News commentator cited[…]
When the Constitutional Convention concluded, Benjamin Franklin upon his exit from the event was accosted by a woman who asked him what kind of government the people had been given. “A republic, madam … if you can keep it,” Franklin tersely replied. Thomas Sowell’s Dismantling America: and Other Controversial Essays (2010) was far-sighted to say[…]
Today’s Gospel[1] reminds us vividly that the teaching of Jesus was new, as fresh as new wine. One must wonder, however, precisely in what manner the Gospel is a novelty, how it can be a rupture with what God himself had established in the revelation and worship of Old Testament times? After all, Our Lord[…]
In a previous article, Becoming Blind to Pornography on the Internet, I discussed the benefits of a particular filtering and self-control software which is primarily targeted towards individuals seeking freedom from the chains of pornography addiction. While it is certainly viable to use filtering software for protecting your family, I believe there is a solution[…]
One of the age-old objections that Protestants have to the Catholic priesthood is known as the “Call No Man Father” Argument, which runs something like this: Christ in Matthew 23:9 forbids His disciples from calling men their fathers,[1] and since one is to take the words of Christ according to the Literal Sense of Scripture,[…]
