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
Paula Adamick pulls no punches in her assessment of the current state of Canada, and whether we can even still call this conglomeration in any real sense a ‘nation’. For what binds a people together? Tim Horton’s and hockey, loons and lakes, maple trees and, now, marijuana? A Trudeaupian vague sense of shared ‘values’, never[…]
This is the first day of summer, the longest day of the year (in the northern hemisphere), solstice marking the Earth’s midway point in its 186 million mile journey around the Sun, in whose light we may rejoice. It is also the memorial of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (+ 1591), a Jesuit scholastic who died at[…]
A fine good morning to all our readers, on this blustery mid-June day, at least as the weather is here in Ontario. I have an article published this morning in Crisis magazine on the recent Ontario election, the trouncing of the Liberals under Kathleen Wynne, and what Doug Ford may be able to accomplish with[…]
From Justin Trudeau’s eyebrow apparently falling off during a press scrum (apparently it may have been an optical illusion), to his tiff with President Trump, along with the imposition of crippling tariffs (just wait until they hit the automobile industry), it has not been a good week for our Prime Minister and Canada. I wonder[…]
Today is the commemoration of Saint Columbkille (521-597), the Irish monk-missionary who brought Catholicism from Ireland to Scotland in 563, and thence to the rest of Europe, setting up the famed Abbey of Iona, a little jewel of an island just west of the Isle of Mull. He is the patron of the diocese in[…]
A blessed Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a feast which has its origins in the early Middle Ages, when a renewed emphasis upon Christ’s humanity dawned upon the world, led by saints such as Bernard of Clairvaux and Francis of Assisi, on into the visions devotio moderna of Saint Mechtilde (+1298), Saint Gertrude[…]
Today, the vigil of the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, is the World Day of Prayer for Priests, instituted by Pope Saint John Paul II in 2002, a reminder that Christ came in true human nature, with a human body, flesh and ‘heart’, and all that means, the emotions and affections proper to being a[…]
The referendum vote in Ireland today, on the ‘right’ to abortion, is a turning point in our culture, for the Catholic nation symbolizes something beyond itself in the imagination of many. When the Republic of Ireland’s constitution was originally penned in 1937, they never thought of putting in a prohibition of abortion, since almost no[…]
Peruse Carl Sundell’s overview of the thought of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, known for his lucid and precise prose on a variety of theological, philosophical and historical topics, still relevant today. We could use more such clarity. And, alas, another purported, and controversial, statement from the Holy Father: It seems that during a meeting[…]
We celebrate today the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, an ancient title of the Virgin, which was formally instituted into the Holy Mass and the Litany of Loreto by Paul VI during the Second Vatican Council, with a subsequent official votive Mass in 1975. Pope Francis, through Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation[…]
