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
An intriguing take on Saint Edith Stein from the perspective of empathy, on which the saint wrote her dissertation, an important topic in our world so immersed in suffering. That said, secular authors should probably brush up on at least some basics of Catholic doctrine. To say that Edith “took Holy Orders as a Carmelite[…]
The Americans dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th, and another one on this day, August 9th – just to make sure they got the message, we may presume – thereby obliterating the most Catholic city in all of Japan, Nagasaki, where countless martyrs had been put to death in the 16th century,[…]
Robert Greving’s recent article in Crisis (July 28th, 2022) requires some clarification. Distinctions are essential, and in these confusing times, where even the elect may be led astray, we must, at all costs, keep our wits about us, and avoid at all costs being scandalized out of the Church! Mr. Greving argues the Pope has[…]
Artist Miles Tucker’s latest bronze sculpture is designed to inspire and fortify faith by depicting the precise moment of Jesus’ resurrection within the tomb three days after his crucifixion. The master work is biblically and historically accurate, with exquisite detailing, and is unique in depicting this specific moment, which is so important in the[…]
In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI inaugurated a Year for Priests, under the heavenly intercession of the Cure of Ars, Saint Jean Vianney, the patron saint not only of parish priests, but of all priests. What makes a priest, is a question asked by the great Thomist Josef Pieper in his In Search of the Sacred.[…]
When the data does not go the way you’d like it, delete it, right down the hole of your donut graph. I don’t recall learning that back when I was studying experimental methodology, but the times they are a changin’.
Names can be confusing in history, for significant figures often share the same name – There have been eighteen kings Louis in France; eight kings Henry in England and six kings James in Scotland; eleven emperors Constantine in – where else – Constantinople; and six presidents James in the United States. I may add that[…]
I offer the following thoughts on the Holy Father’s apologia in his penitential pilgrimage to Canada as a help in discernment and prayer. They are not meant to be exhaustive; rather to offer food for thought. At the end of the day, we don’t want to throw the proverbial Christ child out with the bathwater,[…]
A friend mentioned to me the significance of the papal pilgrimage to Canada – that, regardless of what we think of the current occupant of the chair of Peter, there is still the ‘shadow of Peter’ that follows him whither he goes. The phrase was at first off-putting to me, for, like many readers, I[…]
On July 27th the Church celebrates the feast of Blessed Maria Maddalena Martinengo. The Northern Italian Capuchin nun teaches us how to love Christ in humility and total simplicity. Mary was born from a noble family who lived in Brescia on October 4, 1687, at the Martinengo palace in Brescia. Sadly, the ordeal cost the[…]
