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
As the midterms make clear, the U.S. continues its continental divide, between the (ironically) red Republicans and the blue Democrats, with the former under Trump keeping hold of the Senate (and hence able to appoint judges and such), while the latter now with a majority in Congress. Mark Steyn makes a good point that the[…]
Remember, remember the fifth of November. Yes, it is Guy Fawkes Day, when Brits of a certain religious persuasion celebrate – or used to anyway when religion was more to the fore in people’s minds – the foiling of the ‘Gunpowder Plot’ of 1605, when a group of Catholic conspirators planned to blow up the[…]
It took nearly a hundred years – in galactic terms, I admit, a twinkle of an eye – but astronomers have now officially re-named the ‘Big Bang’ Theory, the ‘Hubble-Lemaitre’ theory. Edwin Hubble was the famed American astronomer who noticed that galaxies are receding from us, in fact everything receding from everything else in the[…]
The Synod on Youth has closed, after approving the final document in accord with the new rules on Episcopal Synods promulgated by Pope Francis just last month, Episcopalis communio, which updated, and strengthened the authority of these meetings of bishops, first approved by Pope Paul VI during the closing days of the Second Vatican Council.[…]
I read recently that Pope John Paul II had a vision of Europe being taken over by Islam, the continent’s once-vibrant Christianity gone silent and dark, entombed and cobwebbed. With whatever grain of salt one takes such stories (such as another one I heard years ago, that ‘Quebec would save North America’, alas) the prophecy[…]
I just finished reading this comprehensive and timely essay in First Things by Michael Hanby, an associate professor of religion and philosophy of science at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University of America, very a propos on this day dedicated to same Pontiff. Therein, the[…]
Paula Adamick has a take on a powerful new book by Jennifer Roback Morse, ‘The Sexual State’, outlining the government’s role in aiding, abetting and outright fostering the revolution of our morals and customs in the sexual and marital sphere, and almost all for the worse. The transvaluation of all values, as Nietzsche put it,[…]
Welcome to the land of now-legal marijuana, for on this Wednesday, Canada, in her continuing cultural descent under Trudeau, becomes the second sovereign nation to legalize the green weed (Uruguay recently beat us to the punch). I have an article in Crisis this morning on the moral difference between alcoholic beverages, permitted in our Catholic[…]
We celebrate a veritable panoply of saints today: In Canada, we have the memorial of Saint Marguerite D’Youville (+1771), who married young to a dissolute man, Francois D’Youville, a bootlegger who sold liquor to the Natives, and would disappear for long periods. He did not live long, but they did have six children together, before[…]
On this half-way mark in the month of October we celebrate the great mystic and doctor of the Church, Teresa of Avila (+1582) who, along with her male contemporary Saint John of the Cross, helped to reform the ancient Carmelite Order, like a female Elijah, albeit with more refined, New Covenant sensibilities (regardless of how[…]
