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
We send our prayers and good wishes to the Million Person March this morning, in Ottawa, and elsewhere across Canada. May their witness, on this feast of the Martyrs of Korea, help bring an end to the madness of the ‘transgender’ ideology, along with all the other in-sanities plaguing our fair land. May goodness and[…]
So, to end my wondering as per the post today, the blood of Saint Januarius did liquefy, as it does a few times per year, by all accounts, miraculously. At least, there is no scientific explanation for the blood of this fourth-century martyr-bishop not to have completely and irrevocably dried up. The times it has[…]
Besides commemorating the Battle of Vienna, today, September 12th, is also the memorial of the Holy Name of Mary, whose very name has been made sacred by the holiness of the woman, the very Theotokos, the Mother of God, full of grace. Pope Innocent XI instituted this feast in 1684, in thanksgiving to the Blessed[…]
Here is some food for thought, from Catholic author Jerome D. Gilmartin, on the deleterious effect of the ‘Markan priorist’ hypothesis – that Mark wrote the first Gospel, rather than Matthew, as is the traditional view, and the view of the Fathers. In his foreword to a new book, The Synodal Process is a Pandora’s Box, Cardinal[…]
I have an article out in Catholic World Report on what Christ might mean by becoming ‘eunuchs for the kingdom’, which at first hearing sounds like a bit of a downer, if not impossible, exhortation, but, at a deeper level, is a very freeing and consoling exhortation.
In his first catechesis out of a series of three on the saint, given at Paul VI Audience Hall on Wednesday 9 January 2008, one of the most eminent Augustinian scholars ever, Pope Benedict XVI, described Saint Augustine with the following words: Man of passion and faith, of the highest intelligence and tireless in his[…]
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 30 January 2008 Saint Augustine of Hippo (3) Dear Friends, After the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity we return today to the important figure of St Augustine. In 1986, the 16th centenary of his conversion, my beloved Predecessor John Paul II dedicated a long, full Document to[…]
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 16 January 2008 Saint Augustine of Hippo (2) Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, like last Wednesday, I would like to talk about the great Bishop of Hippo, St Augustine. He chose to appoint his successor four years before he died. Thus, on 26 September 426, he gathered[…]
A friend of mine just sent along a clip from the 2014 Penguins of Madagascar, which predicted Zoom, replete with the various glitches of the technology. It’s both funny, but also eerie in its accuracy. If only someone had the prescience to see this coming, and nip it in the bud before it metastasized. But,[…]
The following is a poem by Anne Schell, requiescat in pace, submitted by her friend Margaret Maines, who wrote to me: The family found this poem and passed it on to me for a keepsake, and I would like to extend their kindness by having their Mother’s poem published for others to read. It is a[…]
