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
November 16th was the feast of the holy doctor of Naples, St Joseph Moscati. Giuseppe Moscati, who was born in Benevento (southern Italy), on July 25, 1880 and died on Holy Tuesday, April 12, 1927, and he remains a great figure to be imitated. His is a holiness of the lay people who put Christ[…]
On the 8th day of November, the Franciscan Order celebrated its important beati, John Duns Scotus. This famous Scottish Franciscan reverbated God’s knowledge and holiness throughout the centuries. In his Apostolic Letter in honour of John Duns Scotus, Alma Parens, Pope St Paul VI praised Scotus’ with these words: Saint Francis of Assisi’s most beautiful ideal[…]
RFK, Jr. explains in three minutes, and it’s worth pondering. If this is the case with pig farming, what’s next? And what might be done? If there’s a central message from Pope Leo XIII’s landmark encyclical Rerum Novarum, it’s that private property – and farms especially are requisite for the freedom of a nation. Take[…]
On Tuesday November 5th, we celebrated the Commemoration of All the Deceased of the Seraphic Order. On that occasion we recalled to mind and, especially, to our prayers, all those who followed the Lord Jesus in the footsteps of St Francis. We, in the Franciscan Capuchin Province of Malta, had the grace of celebrating this[…]
Google’s motto – replete with irony – was ‘don’t be evil’. They dropped that in 2018, although it’s still apparently somewhere in their code of conduct. A headline recently said something rather unsettling, that the company has been collecting everyone’s most personal data for the past 20 years – troves and troves of it –[…]
Today, Monday 4 November 2024, as we are celebrating the feast of St Charles Borromeo, one instinctively moves my heart, the receptivity and the mission of this great man of God and servant the Church. To follow Hans Urs von Balthasar’s schema of how saints are made, in this great, able, practical and humble holy[…]
The term ‘fascism’ gets a lot of traction in politics, even if few of us could strictly define it. The etymology derives from the ‘fasces’ of the ancient Romans, a bundle of wooden rods, with an axe in the middle,, the symbol of their military might. What the term does seem to imply in the[…]
While we are celebrating the Solemnity of All Saints it is important to appreciate the litany of the Saints. Personally speaking whenever it happens to me to listen to it I really become encouraged and also feel its supportive power. We can classify the Litany of the Saints as one of the many valid and[…]
At this critical time, readers may want to join in a novena to the patroness of the United States, Our Lady under the title of her Immaculate Conception. A fitting brief prayer may be found here. Join this with your daily Rosary. The Queen of heaven and earth will not deny our petitions, made with[…]
(Full disclosure: I myself have not read the most recent encyclical by Pope Francis, so present this reflection by Father Attard for your own discernment, taking what is good in the teaching of our current Pontiff. Ed.) On Thursday 24, 2024, Pope Francis released his third encyclical entitled Dilexit Nos, in which the Pope retraces the[…]
