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
I never saw the film, which came out in 1981, but someone sent me clip, which is oddly, even ominously, prescient – so much so, that I have this suspicion that it might be a deep fake. Was someone trying to tell us something, someway, somehow? Or was it just an strange coincidence? Both actors[…]
August 11th is the traditional feast of Saint Clare of Assisi, and what comes into my mind and heart is her Testament between the years 1247 and 1253. Clare’s Testament is important because it clearly reveals her heart as well as her love for the life given to her by God’s grace through Saint Francis. Clare starts her Testament by[…]
On August 9th, the universal Church celebrates the feast of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Pope Saint John Paul II gives us an interesting picture about her. In fact, this Polish Pontiff helps us tackle and reply to this important question: Why is Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross so important within the recent[…]
A reader sent in the follow request, to pray and support the cause of life in South Dakota, which has been a ‘pro-life’ state, but may soon become a pro-death with the upcoming vote and elections on November 5th. As he alludes, with the fall of Roe, the battle for life is now state by[…]
(Some thoughts from a few years ago, in the midst of the Covidian panic, with a lesson from an heroic Canadian physiologist which bears repeating, for history repeats itself, and we must learn therefrom). On this August 7th, back in 1962, Frances Oldham Kelsey, a Canadian-American physician/pharmacologist (who hailed from bucolic and beautiful Cobble Hill,[…]
It is with sadness that we note, on this Sunday, and the memorial of the patron saint of priests, the passing into eternity of Father Leo Ramsperger, who died last Friday, August 2nd, the commemoration of the Portiuncula, we may add, at the venerable age of 100, and a priest for 70 years. Very few[…]
Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is delighted to announce the Wojtyla Summer Institute for Teachers, scheduled for August 8-11, 2024. This year’s theme, ‘Literature and the Catholic Imagination,’ promises to ignite insightful discussions. Our distinguished keynote speaker, Professor Randy Boyagoda, a renowned writer and academic serving as Professor of English and Acting Vice-Provost, Faculty[…]
Here is an insightful, and forceful, take on the Olympic opening ceremony by Rod Dreher. An excerpt, on the spectacle staged by Thomas Jolly: Jolly rogered the good faith of Christians the world over, and knew exactly what he was doing. So too did everyone at the IOC and in the French government who approved[…]
(A reader pointed out that in the recent boxing controversy, the ‘male’ opponent was not transgender, but rather a biological male apparently with physiological-sexual development disorders. The title, and this reflection, have been emended to reflect that). I asked in a recent post whether the transgender travesty was still a thing at this Olympic games.[…]
I am currently on pilgrimage through Quebec, la belle province, which is still so ‘Catholic’, at least on the outside, with many signs of the true Faith still here and there in the secular state Quebec has become. More thoughts to follow – for now, off to Mass here at Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, and will take readers’[…]
