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
What form will the antichrist take? Our Catholic tradition holds that he will be man, filled with evil, under a hypocritical façade of goodness, which will deceive many, but only because they want to be deceived. Beneath that veneer, he will hate Christ, His Church, all He stands for, and, yes, all of us Catholics,[…]
As the aphorism goes, pictures speak a thousand words, as we witness societal devolution over the span of a few decades. School have become dangerous, even scandalous, places for children. Woe to those by whom…well, you get the rest.
George Cardinal Pell died yesterday, suffering a heart attack after what seemed to be routine hip surgery. Requiescat in pace. He was 81, and lived a long and full life, serving the Church in Australia, appointed archbishop of Melbourne by Pope Saint John Paul II in . He was an advisor to the pontiff,[…]
Pope Benedict XVI’s pontificate was principally marked by his extraordinary gift of teaching. His homilies can be easily seen as catechetical, much on the lines of the great fathers of the Church. This applies to his eight homilies on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. In the homily on this feast, January 8,[…]
I agree with the good Doctor’s diagnosis, but would demur with his prognosis. The rise of a totalitarian regime, based on our biometric data and submission to dubious health protocols, signals a diminution of freedom and, like the merry band of rebels in the trash compactor of the Death Star in the first Star Wars[…]
There is much that might be said concerning this revelatory tweet – the cult-like mode of the response to covid, for one. This is uncomfortably close to Jim Jones Kool-aid. Her notion of love is also at least as problematical. ‘Anti-vaxxers did everything out of hate’, while the vaxxed, even if poisoned, radiate pure, unadorned[…]
On this January 4th in 2010, the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, topping out at 2,722 ft (just over half a mile high) opened to the public. Impressive in its own way, even if a bit Babel-esque, and one wonders how many migrant workers were used in the project at quasi-slave wages,[…]
The new year begins with the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, and, in 2023, with the departure of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. We might take this opportunity to appreciate some of his Mariological reflections. For Benedict, Our Mother Mary is the exemplar of beauty, goodness and purity of heart. Her shining example inspires[…]
The family is the original cell of society. So says Pope John Paul II, and the Catechism. And we all know what happens when cells break down – the body falls apart, which is why the same Pope declared that as the family goes, so goes society. They stand or fall – live or die[…]
On the liturgical feast of the Holy Innocents, the Church honours the first martyrs who gave their lives for our Lord Jesus, the children of Israel killed by King Herod in his quest to find baby Jesus to eliminate him. Herod’s wickedness clearly shows to what extent pride and its little preferred child, jealously, can[…]
