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
Tomorrow, besides being the much more important solemnity of Corpus Christi (at least here in Canada, more on which in a bit) is also Father’s Day, and a recent discussion I heard on the CBC debated whether such a commemoration, along with the complementary and longer-standing Mother’s Day, is inherently discriminatory. After all, what of[…]
Pursuant to my thoughts this morning on Kathleen Wynne’s splashing other people’s money around to further fund the public service and, as a happy accidental (?) addendum, also ensure her and her Liberals a whole swathe of guaranteed votes in the next election, I mentioned that if this larcenous largesse does not stop, we will[…]
If you are interested in an unmasking of the deep anti-Catholic bias in Hollywood, feel free to peruse an article of mine this morning in Crisis, which uses last year’s Captain Fantastic as a paradigm of what the media elites really think about Christians, and Catholicism in particular. Of course, the Hollywood view is inadvertently[…]
Saint Boniface, bishop and martyr, was martyred by a pagan band on this day, June 5, 754. His life was one of tireless struggle to convert the Frisians, early inhabitants of Germania, steeped in paganism and idolatry. The famous story of his felling of the Donar Oak, which the pagan Frisians held so sacred that[…]
A very joyful, blessed and grace-filled Pentecost to all of our readers… In the midst of all the travails of this world, let us entrust ourselves to the Holy Spirit, Who moves all of us to our ultimate end, eternal beatitude in communion with the Holy Trinity. We will only then see how all things[…]
A blessed feast of the Visitation to one and all! I have always considered this a pro-life feast, when two saintly women, each bearing two very holy children, in fact, the holiest, met in a joyful and spiritual reunion. As Pope Benedict has pointed out, the New Covenant begins with the declaration Kaire!, Rejoice!, as[…]
Andrew Scheer has won the election as leader of the federal Conservative Party, thankfully and rather surprisingly narrowly edging out front-runner Maxime Bernier, who would have been another bland pseudo-conservative disaster, stumbling around from one policy to the next (hello, Mr. Patrick ‘who am I and what do I stand for?’ Brown). Mr. Scheer, a[…]
Sometimes, following Saint Philip Neri in his spirit of joy is a difficult one, as we hear of another Islamic attack, this time on a bus filled with Christians on a desert road, many of them children, en route to the shrine of Saint Samuel the Confessor, just south of Cairo. The attackers sprayed the[…]
Today is one of the rare, if memory serves unique, days in the liturgical calendar wherein we celebrate three saints. In chronological order, they are: Saint Bede, who is called the Venerable (672-735) a monk in early England who wrote a definitive and invaluable history of the Church in Britain, ‘The Ecclesiastical History of the[…]
ISIS has struck again, in the heart of Britain, as a suicide bomber detonated a ‘sophisticated’ device as young concertgoers were leaving an ‘Ariana Grande’ concert in Manchester. At least 22 have been killed, and dozens more injured. Details are of course still emerging, and in the meantime we must pray for the victims, for[…]
