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
As the official government webpage puts it: …the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, and the Honourable Ya’ara Saks, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, highlighted the government’s plan to roll out the first phase of national universal pharmacare—an initiative that will be a part of[…]
As the secular world celebrates the French revolution on July 14th, during which thousands of innocent human persons simply were guillotined by ferocious people whose hunger for power made them forget that they were dealing with other human beings, the Church celebrates one of her own great revolutionaries. But this revolution was not political, but[…]
Blessed Simon was born in Lipnica Murowana, in the south of Poland, between the years 1435-1440. His parents, Gregory and Anne, knew how to give him a good education, inspired by the values of the Christian faith, and, despite their modest conditions, they took care to secure him an adequate cultural formation. Simon grew up[…]
Even if, as Pope Benedict XVI tells us in his catechesis on St Benedict of Nursia on St Benedict of Norcia, Benedict’s earthly life ended on 21 March 547 this saint’s spiritual and monastic legacy is simply incredible. Within the same catechesis the great German Pope did not hesitate to call Saint Benedict the Founder of Western Monasticism and[…]
Contributor Dr. Andrzej Caruk reminds us that today we recall the 81-st Anniversary of the National Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Citizens of the Polish Republic. As he put it: We commemorate this day not to seek vengence, but so history will not repeat itself – when on July[…]
Up-and-coming author Ben Galeski has written three novels thus far, two of them published by Justin Press, and the third about to be. They are works of historical fiction, a demanding genre, for one must take past events, not only make them real, but maintain consistency with the historical reality. Then, the author must add[…]
A recent article from The Wall Street Journal on human sacrifice in ancient civilizations, children and maidens being slaughtered en masse for what we would not deem esoteric, superstitious and simply unknown reasons, says the following: At the distance of millennia, these and other ritual killings appear barbaric. But to the cultures that carried them out,[…]
Today, July 9th, is the feast of the Martyrs of Gorkum in the Netherlands, and their story is truly fascinating. At the beginning of the 16th century, everyone was Catholic in the Netherlands, but that changed with the Reformation, whose beginning we may trace to Luther’s proclamation of 1517. The people who joined this movement[…]
(It’s hard to believe that I wrote this seven years ago, and how far we traveled the road to Mordor since then. Remember Kathleen Wynne, the openly lesbian premier of Ontario? I have not thought of her much at all, until someone reminded of these few words – then I saw her photo, and thought,[…]
I was driving home the other day from a delightful visit with friends and family over the holiday weekend on a lovely remote property – no cell reception! – when, taking a turn in the road on the way home, I came across this church in the picturesque village of Calabogie: If one reads the[…]
