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
Anthony Esolen captures in a vivid and clear way what is wrong with the manner in which the Novus Ordo Mass is usually celebrated: Quodlibet-ally, as we might put it, or, as he does, ‘whatever’, as in whatever strikes the fancy of the priest, the choir, the congregation, the youth, the elderly the, well, the[…]
Paula Adamick in her article today, in her usual vivid way, connects the cultural trajectory from the ‘long, hot summer’ of 1968 to the one we are experiencing now a half-century in 2018, which would have a year of science-fiction to those back then. Things have turned out more fiction than science, and more dystopia[…]
A blessed feast of Saint Benedict to all our readers! Although the whole monastic tradition predates him by several centuries, going back to such early figures as Pachomius and Anthony, Benedict did write the most famous rule for monks, in which he mitigated the severe penances of the Irish monks (always given to extremes). His rule[…]
I have an article published on Crisis magazine, on the spiritual purpose, even the necessity, of ‘pilgrimage’, which take various forms, from the explicit walking journey, through hills and vales, to the more ordinary daily ‘pilgrimage’ we make to our local church. Feel free to peruse, and feedback is always welcome. There is a personal[…]
Carl Sundell has a very a propos article today in Catholic Insight on the remarkable Frank Sheed (+1982), a Catholic lay apologist who emphasized the need of a properly formed intellect not just to demonstrate the rationality of the faith to others, but also to live it oneself. The loss of intellectual formation is one[…]
Well, another ‘Canada Day’ has come and gone, celebrating the founding of this Dominion in 1867, which achieved further ‘liberation’, if one wants to use that term, from Britain in 1982 with our ‘Charter’ under Pierre Elliot Trudeau, whose election as Prime Minister, it seems, was helped along by legions of screaming female fans, which[…]
A blessed and joyous solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul to all our readers! As they were in life, comites, literally ‘fellow travellers’, so they were in death, leaving everything behind for the sake of Christ and His kingdom. The Saviour took two imperfect, and very different, men and fashioned them into His primary Apostles,[…]
Saint Irenaeus is the saint of the day, the vigil of Saints Peter and Paul. He was bishop of Lyons in what is now France, a doctor of the Church, and venerated as a martyr for the faith (+202), a disciple of fellow martyr Saint Polycarp (+155), who in turn was learned the faith at the feet[…]
I have an article posted this morning on the Benedict Option on Catholic World Report, for those inclined to peruse before it is posted on these pages. Feedback, as always, is welcome. For once, and hopefully more of this in the future, SCOTUS, the Supreme Court of the United States has, by a narrow 5-4[…]
I hesitate even to draw attention to it, but Toronto’s 38th annual (really?) ‘Gay Pride’ parade (with other similar events in other cities) has come and gone, with all the mess to clean up. To his credit, Doug Ford did not attend, a good sign and a rather counter-cultural stance that bodes some hope for[…]
