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
This saint, one of the Church’s most illustrious missionaries. This is the apt description given to the Jesuit priest and saint St Francis Xavier, whose feast we celebrated on Tueday 3 December 2024, by Capuchin brother Fr Berchmans Bittle OFM Cap in his book A Saint A Day. When I think of St Francis Xavier spontaneously[…]
Here is a worthy and beneficial novena to the Immaculate Conception, whose intercession is much needed in our world – she is the patroness of the United States – and very beneficial to our own souls.
We need more thumos in the Catholic Church, the Platonic notion of ‘spirit, courage, wherewithal, steadfastness, zeal, magnanimity, capacity’ and we may add a host of other synonyms and related terms. Its opposites are manifest all around us: ‘cowardice, complacence, complaisance, softness, pusillanimity’, and I do not exempt myself from any of them. I strive[…]
S.A. Dance makes a good case for true education, on the second anniversary of the release of ChatGPT, the ‘artificial intelligence’ software – which is in essence just an algorithm collating the repertoire of the collective knowledge of humans. As Dunce puts it: Two years ago, on November 30, OpenAI made their text generator software[…]
Tragic, but not a suprise, that the House of Commons yesterday voted by quite a wide margin – 330 to 275 – to legalize physician-assisted murder-suicide, known by the euphemism ‘euthanasia’. This literally means ‘good death’, which this most definitely is not. Not a surprise, since in a nation that has lost God, to paraphrase[…]
Britain votes tomorrow – or today if you’re reading this on Friday – on euthanasia, or more properly the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) legislation, which would permit the ‘terminally ill’ to be helped to commit suicide. The bill itself, of course, is suicidal, the thin edge of the wedge towards health care turning[…]
November 27th is the traditional Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, which offers great hope for our shattered world. It was on this day in 1830 that the Blessed Mother appeared to St Catherine Laboure in the Motherhouse Chapel of the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity in Paris, France. Catherine was still[…]
On November 26th, the Franciscan family celebrates one of its great saints: St Leonard of Port Maurice, who performed an amazing number of missions, by which he has received the title of the Apostle of Rome and of Italy as well as the Apostle of the Most Holy Sacrament and of the Sacred Heart of[…]
EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION FOR THE FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING HOMILY OF POPE JOHN PAUL II Sunday, 23 November 1997 1. On this Sunday which closes the liturgical year, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. In the Gospel we listened to Pontius Pilate’s question to Jesus: “Are you the[…]
As the stakes rise in the various conflicts around the world, not least in Russia, Ukraine and the Middle east, we should remind ourselves of the Church’s theory of a ‘just war’, which should be our guide – not jingoism or dreams of unconditional surrender. Like most theories, it’s more difficult in practice. Still, we[…]
