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
Paul Ehrlich died last March 13th, at the age of 93. He was the author of The Population Bomb, published in the fateful year of 1968, when the sexual revolution was in full swing, and ‘the Pill’ all the thing. It was also the year Pope Saint Paul VI promulgated his revolutionary encyclical Humanae Vitae,[…]
I recently had a conversation with Mrs. Bonnie Landry, on whose popular podcast ‘Make Joy Normal: Cozy Homeschooling‘ I’ve been a guest before. This time, the theme was the much forgotten, if not maligned, but very necessary and beautiful virtue of chastity, and its accompanying virtues of purity and modesty. We need to rediscover the[…]
I think of Pope Leo XIII (the last pope of that name, who reigned from 1878 to 1903, after whom the current pope took his own title) and Pope Saint John Paul II (from 1978 to 2005) as ‘bookends’ of a sort. They both wrote much, on similar themes, in different ways, to be sure,[…]
Pope Blessed Pius IX declared Saint Joseph patron of the universal Church in 1870. This was sixteen years after the same Pontiff defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, on the same day, in 1854, with the Apostolic Constitution Ineffabilis Deus. That was also the year the Pope began his long sojourn as the ‘prisoner[…]
Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is embarking tomorrow on our annual pilgrimage to Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland, following the steps of Saints Jean de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalemant and their companions who gave their lives for Christ, for Canada, and for the people they loved so much. They prayed for their torturers and executioners, and[…]
(The Liberals are fast-tracking Bill C-9 through parliament, which will make illegal ‘hate speech’, vaguely defined, and punishable by two years to life imprisonment. Specifically, the new bill seeks to remove ‘religious exemption’ from legitimate criticism of the nefarious, or at least controversial, beliefs and practices of certain ‘protected groups’. Our Canadian bishops, not often[…]
Bishop Marian Eleganti, auxiliary emeritus of Chur, Switzerland, through which I happened to pilgrimage last summer, sums up the irregular situation of the SSPX. His thoughts bear pondering: Firstly, acting with full autonomy without papal mandate or confirmed mission; secondly, operating with bishops not in union with the Pope and the episcopal college; thirdly, maintaining[…]
Bishop Erik Varden, OCSO, a Cistercian Trappist, converted to Catholicism in 2002, and, after years of study at Cambridge and Rome – he is an expert in Syriac – was ordained to the priesthood on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in 2011, and a decade later, was consecrated bishop of Trondheim, Norway[…]
Saints are by definition ‘extreme’, for they live a liminal life, on the very threshold of eternity, seeing past the veil of this world. Hence, they act as though all that mattered were the next life, which, in the end, is true. Contrary to John Lennon, they more than imagine – they fully believe, and[…]
Remember to turn your clocks forward for Daylight Savings Time this evening, March 8th, a 2 am to be precise. Or, at least, since most of us keep time using digital devices, which automatically adjust, one should psychologically prepare for one hour less sleep. One would hope that this measure would have ended a long[…]
