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
July 24th is the traditional commemoration of one of the most remarkable of saint, aptly called Christina Mirabilis, Christina the Astonishing (1150 – 1224), dying the year before the birth of Thomas Aquinas, at the dawn of the apex of the mediaeval era. She was orphaned as a teenager, and spent her life tending sheep.[…]
Today marks the anniversary of one of the greatest victories in the history of Christendom, the defeat of the Islamic Ottoman Turks on July 22, 1456, fresh from their destruction of Constantinople three years previously, by a ragtag and vastly outnumbered group of mostly unarmed Christian defenders, led by the indomitable Hungarian, John Hunyadi. If[…]
A reader sent along this photo, taken yesterday over the skies of Montreal, and Saint Joseph’s Oratory: We should recall that the rainbow is a sign of God’s hope, love, benevolence and mercy, and it is sad, even scandalous, that it has been co-opted for causes that have inverted and warped these virtues. Symbols mean[…]
Saint Lorenza (Lawrence) da Brindisi – Capuchin priest and Doctor of the Church – was born Giulio Cesare Russo on July 22, 1559 to Guglielmo Russo and Elisabetta Masella. We have little knowledge of his childhood. He was one of the top students in his school, but lost both his parents during his youth. He moved[…]
A friend just reminded me that today, a few days after Our Lady of Mount Carmel, is the commemoration of the great prophet Elijah, mighty as a whirlwind, on which he was taken up to heaven in front of his successor, Elisha. As we posted a few days ago, Elijah heard his call in the[…]
On this July 17th, 1870, the First Vatican Council solemnly declared the doctrine of infallibility – infallibly. The prelude to the definition was surrounded with controversy, with figures such as Cardinal Newman warning that, although true, it was inopportune. But God has His ways, and Pius IX was determined. So, an overwhelming majority of the[…]
In reference to Nancy Pelosi receiving Communion in a Papal Mass – although not by the Pope – along with an all-smiles photo-op with the Holy Father, allow me simply to offer some thoughts that may help. Some have implied that Ms. Pelosi has been banned from Communion only ‘in her own diocese’ and ‘by[…]
My first thought on the recent liturgical Motu Proprio of Pope Francis, Desiderio Desideravi, was similar to Peter Kwasnieski’s – that the Holy Father’s reasoning hinges upon one disputable principle: That the current liturgy in the Church is a direct fruit of the Second Vatican Council, willed into being, at least in potentia, by the[…]
On June 30th, 2022, the feast celebrates the feast of the First Martyrs of the Church of Rome. Their witness is important because it brings to fruition what it means to follow Jesus Christ unto death. The Christians of Rome were the addressees of St Paul’s famous letter, which he wrote in the year 57-58[…]
It was on this day in 2007 that the i-phone was first introduced to the world, and things have never been the same since. Hard to believe it was just fifteen years ago that Jobs’ invention, or, more properly, innovation (for cell phones existed before then) changed the world, and our perception of the world.[…]
