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
Today is the 14th anniversary of the death of Pope Saint John Paul II, who displayed in his final years, months and especially days his truly heroic soul, as well as the value, even the joy, of redemptive and ‘salvific suffering’ (Salvifici Doloris) on which he had written so eloquently 21 years earlier, on the[…]
The infamous and unjust ‘carbon tax’ begins today, foisting an extra 5 cents a litre on every fill-up. The purpose for this imposition is to coerce us hoi polloi to use less gas, and hence reduce our ‘emissions’, and hence contribute less to ‘global warming’. Ideas – even manifestly dubious ones as anthropogenic climate change[…]
A very joyous Laetare Sunday to all our readers, a day on which we can partake in some way in the joy of Easter in this half-way mark through Lent. The austere violet is softened to rose, as a prelude to the Resurrection, before we enter into the time of the Passion. The name derives[…]
Bishop Michael Mulhall – who has led the diocese of Pembroke since 2007, wherein I and the College at which I teach both happen to reside – has been appointed by Pope Francis, as of today, March 28th, as the Archbishop-elect of Kingston. He is succeeding Archbishop Brendan O’Brien, who was also Bishop of Pembroke[…]
The Holy Father has just completed his one-day pilgrimage to the Holy House of Loreto. As tradition has it – not of divine faith, but small-t ‘tradition’ – this is the original house of the Holy Family in Judea which, in the 13th century, was miraculously ‘flown’ from there by four angels, first to Tersatto[…]
‘Tis the ides of March[1], when one is meant to beware, for it marks the assassination of Julius Caesar, a famous enough event in itself, which changed Roman, and therefore world, history, made more famous by the Bard’s play. Et tu, Brute? Were the last words that Shakespeare gave the dying consul-dictator – it is[…]
Tragedy in Christchurch, New Zealand, the bucolic land of sheep and Lord of the Rings, where murder is about as rare as it can be in this post-Cain world, as at least 49 people – Muslims, worshiping for Friday prayers – have been killed in an apparent terrorist attack, perpetrated by a white, 28-year old[…]
As justice has it, each of us deserves his day in court, and should be deemed innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. But such does not always ensure justice is done. That is why the case against George Cardinal Pell seems so unjust, for there seems to be not only lots of reasonable doubt of[…]
Today is also the feast – a commemoration now, in the Lenten calendar of the Novus Ordo – of the early martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, put to death likely in the year 203. This was under the reign of Septimius Severus, who seems on the whole to have been well-disposed to Christians. But the religion[…]
The Cardinal Pell saga continues, with his own lawyer now apparently conceding some sort of truth to the decades-old offences, while George Weigel offers strong evidence that Cardinal Pell’s innocence, which His eminence has always maintained, an innocence which can be, and has been, confirmed beyond reasonable doubt. Perhaps the Cardinal could hire Weigel as[…]
