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
In 1978, the Vatican issued guidelines for discerning the veracity of visions and revelations. Specifically, these were issued by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (SCDF), and I’m still not sure why they removed the ‘sacred’, nor why this was later changed to dicastery, rather than congregation, but I digress. Aware of[…]
Technology in itself is neither good nor bad, but some technology tends more to the bad or the good. There are some theoretically good uses of, say, thermonuclear bombs – see the final scene in Armageddon, but be sure not to watch the full film. Condoms could make some heavy-duty water balloons. And the internet[…]
I had trouble at first believing it, but I just checked, and it’s true: the English translations of Pope Saint John Paul II’s Wednesday audiences have been deleted from the Vatican website: Vatican website's censorship of Pope John Paul II The English translations of Pope John Paul II's general audience addresses, that contained his catechesis,[…]
On this first day of May, dedicated to Mary, in this year after the 400th anniversary year of the death of one of England’s finest composers, William Byrd, we thought it fitting to post one of his madrigals dedicated to the Virgin and to this month: This Sweet and Merry Month of May was first published[…]
On this last day of April, we celebrate the liturgical memorial of the Dominican Pope St Pius V. As Church history would tell us this holy pope remains notable for his unique role in the Council of Trent, the Counter-Reformation program of reform as well as the standardization of the Roman Rite within the Latin[…]
Marie de l’Incarnation: Études de théologie spirituelle by Pierre Gervais, S.J.: A Review Marie of the Incarnation, born Marie Guyart, was one of the first arrivals in ‘New France’, which would later become Canada, arriving here in in 1639, about the same time as many of the Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries, and she was in[…]
Saint Agnes of Montepulciano (+1317) is one of the ‘incorruptibles’. She was born in the picturesque cliff-top Italian city on January 28th, 1268, the same day as her fellow Dominican, Thomas Aquinas (whose birth year was likely 1225). The future Jesuit and Cardinal, Saint Robert Bellarmine was also born in Montepulciano, and the region, in[…]
G.K. Chesterton quipped once, if memory serves, that each man, with some diligent and faithful hard work, should be able to afford ‘three acres and a cow’, to provide for his family in a fitting manner. Enough room to grow a large garden, the cow for milk (and perhaps, eventually, meat), space for the children[…]
One more note on this April 16th, which also marks the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden in 1746, when the Scottish regiments, in support of Charles Stuart, were decisively defeated by the English. Bonnie Prince Charlie, as he was known, was the grandson of James VII of Scotland, also James II of England, who[…]
Most people lie. At least, so it seems, according to a recent podcast by Terry O’Reilly’s Under the Influence, which, unlike many shows Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC, speaks a lot of truth, I suppose because it’s about advertising. Sure, advertisers lie, but, at the end of the day, they must face the reality, for[…]
