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
May 18th would have been Pope Saint John Paul II’s 98th birthday, which would be old even for the oldest of Popes. Benedict, the XVIth of that title, turned 91 on April 16th, and Leo XIII reigned until the venerable age of 93, making him the oldest Pope in history. I am sure John Paul[…]
Tom Wolfe died a couple of days ago, on May 14th, one of the originators of what came to be called the ‘new journalism’ in the heady sixties, a flowing, stream-of-consciousness form of writing, vividly descriptive and introspective, with essays such as the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and the Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. But he[…]
A blessed feast of the Ascension to all our readers, when Christ ascended body and soul back to the Father, whence He was sent, to that Trinitarian life that is His by nature. The Ascension was (and is in most of the rest of the Church) celebrated on Thursday of the sixth week of Easter,[…]
The twentieth-or-so- March for Life was overall a success, at the very least in the prayerful witness offered in the cause of the dignity of life. The route was re-routed by the phalanx of uber-weaponized police officers (who had much to-do about nothing really), due to a small-ish group of protestors, wearing masks and shouting[…]
A blessed Sixth Sunday of Easter, as we journey with Christ and His Apostles towards Pentecost…Veni Creator Spiritus! It had to happen, I suppose: The Boy Scouts are now the No Scouts, at least, no preconceived (and I mean that quite literally) gendered Scouts, a once all-boy organization run by all-men which stood for over[…]
A blessed feast of the Apostles Philip and James, the latter called ‘the Lesser’, to distinguish him from James ‘the Greater’, the writer of the Epistle (which here, likely means just ‘older’), whose feast is on July 25th. Philip is the one who asks a number of leading questions in the Gospels, such as ‘how[…]
In his 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens, Pope John Paul II defined work as ‘any activity of man’, contrary to our modern notion, so immersed in what we might call ‘productive’ labour. Yet, as the Pope rightly sees it, the primary aspect of work is subjective, perfecting the one who is doing the work, and only secondarily[…]
Paula Adamick’s article on the socialist and anti-Christian philosophy behind ‘Earth Day‘, celebrated, if such be the term, on the birthday of Lenin himself, as well as her take on the whole environmentalist agenda, should give one deep food for thought. Yes we must treat our world with care and foresight, but always remember that[…]
Our Lady of Good Counsel is a fine title of Mary, one which dates back indirectly to the 5th century, when Pope Sixtus III provided material and spiritual aid to a church dedicated to Our Lady in the Italian town of Genazzano, whose citizens had contributed significantly to the recently-finished magnificent basilica Santa Maria Maggiore[…]
We should pray for the victims of the van attack in Toronto yesterday, the ten who have died, the others still in hospital in critical condition, and, yes, the perpetrator, who perhaps needs prayers most of all. Not much is known of him; a motive has so far not been disclosed, and it is always[…]
