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
(To remind readers, letters to the editor are very welcome, and those judged pertinent can be posted, with permission, and with some commentary in the spirit of charitable dialogue and critique in search of the fullness and splendour of truth). So, in that spirit, Richard Yates from England writes: I don’t think Carl Sundell is[…]
On August 22nd, the Church celebrates the feast of the Queenship of Mar, honouring Mary’s unique role as Mother of God and Queen of Heaven. It was the venerable Pope Pius XII who, inspired by the Holy Spirit and the longstanding Marian devotion for the Queenship of Mary, instituted this feast. By instituting this feast[…]
It sounds like a parody in a tragic comedy, like an even more-inverted Monty Python come full circle: Attendees at the recent Demo(n)cratic National Convention were offered ‘free abortions and vasectomies‘: Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which operates in parts of Missouri and Illinois, will park its mobile health clinic near the DNC on Aug. 19[…]
Recently I felt really blessed going back to the catechesis Pope Benedict XVI gave on St Bernard of Clairvaux on Wednesday 21 October 2009. His first statement of that instructive and inspiring catechesis ran the following: Today I would like to talk about St Bernard of Clairvaux, called “the last of the Fathers” of the Church[…]
Those of sane mind know that D.E.I. is a problem, especially as mandated by faceless bureaucracies, cloaked in a veneer of goodness. After all, diversity, equality and inclusivity seem admirable, or at least not morally objectionable. The problem, of course, is that life is about much more than these three analogues to the French revolutionaries’[…]
Sister Agnes Sasagawa, the visionary of Akita, has died, at the age of 93, and, fittingly, like Saint Hyacinth of whom we wrote today, on the Solemnity of the Assumption. Readers may recall the alleged visions of of Our Lady to Sister Agnes, at her convent in Akita, Japan, back in 1981 and 1982, with[…]
One would like to delve into the details of these statistics, and the strict definition of the various conditions, along with their etiologies, which are usually complex and multi-faceted, but on the surface, they are, to put it mildly, troubling. Half the population suffering from type-II diabetes? And 1 in 36 children with autism? If[…]
Saint Roch (1295 – 1376?) – also known as Rock, or, in Scotland, Rollox, not to be confused with the luxury watch of similar vintage – whose feast we celebrate on August 16th, was a Majorcan confessor, perhaps originally from Montpellier. On a pilgrimage to Rome, he tended to plague victims, caught the disease, and[…]
Our new bishop for the Pembroke diocese is being ordained this morning, on the Solemnity of the Assumption, so please do keep him and all of us in prayer! Rev. Michael Brehl, C.S.s.R. named the 10 th Bishop of Pembroke: With great cause for rejoicing, I announce that today that our Holy Father,[…]
The formerly ‘Great Britain’ has descended into a totalitarian police state, one on the brink of some sort of civil war. Here be the arrest of a private citizen for comments made on FaceBook. ‘Someone complained’, as these pliant coppers say, so off to the clink he goes. Now, it seems, one can go to[…]
