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
The controversy over ‘Lettergate’ is an indicative one, wherein the Vatican Secretariat for Communication, Msgr. Dario Vigano (who has since been demoted, sort of, to third-in-command at said Curia) distorted the views of Pope Emeritus Benedict in his comments on a collection of Pope Francis’ ‘theology’, a compendium of theological works that have shaped the[…]
Paula Adamick has a piece on coercion by the State, very a propos, for the power and intrusion of the government is waxing stronger than ever of late. Although the coercive dimension of public law is a necessary tool in any society, Saint Thomas teaches that it is only to be used for those things[…]
I am still pondering the providential serendipity of Stephen Hawking’s death yesterday, the math whiz going to meet His God on pi day. A calculus professor forwarded a reference to the mystical pi number in the Bible, from the First Book of Kings: And he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one[…]
Adam Child’s playful take on women’s dressing, or dressing down, provides a humorous side to the debate on modesty, which does play in some way into the #MeToo movement. We are fallen creatures, with what the Catechism calls ‘concupiscence’; that is, our passions move in ways contrary to reason, at times violently so, without our[…]
It would be remiss of me not to mention today also as the memorial of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, the account of whose martyrdom in 203, under the reign of Setpimius Severus is one of the most vivid and authentic, penned in the first person by none other than Perpetua herself. Both Perpetua (a noblewoman)[…]
I have an article published this morning in Crisis, on the necessity of reappropriating and reinstantiating beautiful liturgical music, which the Church describes as her greatest artistic treasure. What we hear in all too many parishes is, quite simply, unfitting for house of God and public, liturgical worship. As always, comments, critical or otherwise, are[…]
Pius XI taught that Socialism, along with its theoretical end-point, Communism, are intrinsically evil, entailing various fundamental violations of fundamental human rights, not least the right to property, freedom, religion, free enterprise and life. Almost invariably, such regimes end up brutally, with ubiquitous surveillance, mass deportations, imprisonments, labour camps, staged courts and summary executions. Paula[…]
What happened in the school shooting at Stoneman High School gets even odder: It now seems a senior officer on scene ordered all the deputies to ‘set up a perimeter’ while the killer wandered around in the building for six minutes killing people. This goes contrary to the procedure instantiated after the Columbine massacre in[…]
So Patrick Brown has dropped out, one might say ‘again’, but the first resignation was from actually holding the leadership of the Conservative Party, with this second time from running to regain his job. He has cited his reasons in a four-page manifesto which includes the need to fight the ‘charges’ against him, as well[…]
Jesuit Father Anthony Spadaro, the controversial advisor to Pope Francis, has re-tweeted (how I dislike that verb, just in passing) a call by Anthony Annett, an assistant to the director of the International Monetary Fund, to ‘interdict’ EWTN until they get ‘rid of’ broadcast host and interviewer Raymond Arroyo. I’m not sure Mr. Annett knows[…]
