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
Things continue to unfold apace in the United States, as clashes over monuments, history and ‘what it’s all about’ continue. This isn’t really about ‘racism’, a canard thrown about mostly from a bygone era, but rather about what we might call ‘culturism’. That is, what is our culture, what are all those things we hold[…]
In the eyes of God, the smaller and more hidden things in this life are often those of the greatest moment in the sight of eternity. Such we witnessed yesterday, when a young woman offered her life to God in religious life, publicly professing the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, her whole life and[…]
We just completed our seventh annual Wojtyla Institute, on the theme of Beauty and Faith (hence, my brief hiatus from writing here) which was a grand success overall: Very fine speakers, lots of discussion and debated, new friendships made and old ones rekindled, all in the midst of the beauty of the Madawaska Valley. I[…]
As a follow up to my recent musings on the firing of the Google engineer for pointing out some basic differences between men and women, I came across this quotation from Pope John Paul II, from his 1994 Letter to Families, Gratissimam Sane, for a more theological take on this most fundamental and rather obvious matter:[…]
A blessed and joyful feast of Saint Lawrence to all, one of the very few non-Apostolic saints to be honoured with a full ‘feast’. A deacon under Pope Sixtus in 258 A.D., Lawrence was put to death a few days after his Pontiff suffered martyrdom. One of his roles was distributing alms, and, hence, had[…]
Today is the feast of Saint Dominic, who died on the sixth of August, 1221, having founded one of the great and glorious religious Orders in the Church, the ‘Dominicans’, the ‘domini canes‘, the ‘hounds of God’, as the joke goes. Officially, they are the ‘Order of Preachers’, dedicated to study (they promise, as far[…]
A reminder that Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is offering the annual Wojtyla Institute on the weekend of August 10-13th. This year’s theme is: Beauty & Catholicism: A discussion of Art, Literature, Nature, and concepts of Beauty in the Catholic Tradition. There is a raft of fine speakers on this fundamental topic, for beauty is perhaps[…]
A good read on the sacredness and ‘set-apart-ness’ of the priest, by none other than the Archbishop of the town of my birth, Glasgow. The only little tiny glitch in an otherwise very fine and bold article is that the good Archbishop seems to agree, to some extent, with the removal of altar rails,[…]
So it turns out that Winston Blackmore, along with his sidekick in polygamy James Oler, has been convicted, a good thing I suppose, but the decision is already being appealed, and will this whole thing will likely end up at the Supreme Court, that benighted array of ‘divines’ whom we have chosen to interpret the[…]
A reminder that Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is offering the annual Wojtyla Institute on the weekend of August 10-13th. This year’s theme is: Beauty & Catholicism: A discussion of Art, Literature, Nature, and concepts of Beauty in the Catholic Tradition. There is a raft of fine speakers on this fundamental topic, for beauty is perhaps[…]
