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
We celebrate today the feast of Saint Ignatius of Antioch (35-107 A.D.), one of the earliest Fathers of the Church, bishop of the same city as Saint Peter, the third in succession after the first Pope, before Peter himself, inspired by God, moved on to Rome, baptizing, if you will, that centre of pagan worship[…]
David Warren has an interesting take on the Catalonian independence movement: I had never considered the role of women in pant-suits, who now seem to govern most Western countries, in all this revolution and social change business. Whatever Saint Paul meant by that mysterious admonition to Timothy, that he would not have a woman have[…]
REVIEW: Sorrows and Joys — Colin Ian Jeffery ISBN: 978197459830 Paperback £5.14 Amazon or any good bookshop Collection of 212 poems Colin Ian Jeffery is a leading Christian poet and all poems in this collection have been published in newspapers, magazines and anthologies. The collection gives an insight into the driving forces behind his poetry,[…]
What is in a gesture? A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet, to paraphrase fair Juliet, and what matters if someone kneels, stands, lies down or does a yoga pose during the national anthem? Yet we all know, deep down in our heart of hearts, that signs mean something, and the[…]
Join us in celebrating Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College’s degree-granting status! This event includes a Mass of Thanksgiving (at 3 p.m.), followed by a social, and then the Celebration Banquet, all taking place in Barry’s Bay on Saturday, September 30th. You may purchase your tickets online or by mail and phone. Please find the[…]
Today’s reading, in Saint Paul’s letter to the young bishop Timothy, the Apostle requests all Catholics to ‘pray for those in high places’, for all those carrying that oft-misunderstood quality we call ‘authority’. Whether they are aware of such or not, everyone carrying that burden, however it was laid upon them, by birth, by vote,[…]
A blessed memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows to all, a feast begun in the 1233, in that ‘greatest of centuries’, with the founding in Florence of the ‘Servite’ Order, when seven young men left the world, banded together in community to follow a life of prayer, charity and devotion to the Blessed Mother. They[…]
There is a lot of talk of immigration of late, and far, far more to come, both of talk, and, more to the point, of immigration itself (see this article by Mark Steyn for his take on the ‘Dreamer’ debate amongst our neighbours to the south). I myself am an immigrant, coming into Canada as[…]
Yesterday, North Korea purportedly test-detonated a hydrogen bomb, raising the tension in the region, and raising the prospect of yet-again the use of nuclear weapons in combat. I have posted today an article I recently had published in Crisis magazine, on the morality of dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945,[…]
Today is the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, but is also the 3rd of September, which would be the memorial of the one of the greatest of Popes, Saint Gregory the Great. Here, from nine years ago (!) is a reflection on this ‘Father of the Church’, from another great Pope, Benedict XVI (Editor) Dear[…]
