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 live in an unreal world, which is to say, one unhinged from the truth. One way to know what is right, is to know what’s wrong, the via negativa, if you will. First, a man – which is to say, an adult biological male, for one must clarify such things nowadays – has entered[…]
Saint Stanislaus Kostka – who died in 1568 just a few months shy of his eighteenth birthday – is one of the most popular saints in Poland. His short life demonstrates two primary lessons: That much can be done in little time, and that whatever time we are given here on earth, it’s all given[…]
Fifty years ago, on this November 10th, in 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald was wrecked in a mighty hurricane-force gale on Lake Superior, just 17 miles from shore. But that’s a long way when you’re on water, as any boatman will tell you. At the time, the Edmund was the largest ship ever to sail the[…]
The Batman trilogy – to say nothing of the previous comic books – did not foresee a socialist Muslim mayor of Gotham City. We will leave aside the Islamic aspect for now, and just focus on the socialist ideology of Zohran Mamdani, who just won by an overwhelming landslide, helped in large part, ironically, by[…]
Join the Society of Catholic Scientists in celebrating the memorial of Saint Albert the Great, patron of scientists on Tuesday, November 18, at the Newman Centre Catholic Mission, 89 George Street Toronto. Holy Mass will begin at 7PM in the Chapel, with homilist Father Joachim Ostermann, OFM. A reception will follow in the house. RSVP[…]
On this day in 1534, King Henry VIII promulgated his Oath of Supremacy which made the Tudor king the only supreme head in earth of the Church of England, called Anglicans Ecclesia bestowing upon his person any manner of spiritual authority or jurisdiction, which no other potentate – even the pope – could circumvent. Few[…]
The Dies Irae – ‘Day of Wrath’ – is a 13th century sequence preparing us for the final judgement, composed perhaps by the Franciscan Friar Thomas of Celano, or the Dominican Friar Latino Malabranca Orsini, or even by Saint Bonaventure, Bernard of Clairvaux, or Pope Gregory I. Whoever its author be, its haunting chant melody[…]
One year after Martin Luther supposedly pinned his 95 Theses to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenberg (they were likely mailed to his superiors, but legends abound), Alphonsus Rodriguez (1532 – 1617) was born in Segovia, Spain. The latter lived in some ways a life almost the direct opposite of the fiery and[…]
There are two options today for saints – the first are the North American Martyrs, also called the Canadian Martyrs, but who most accurately may be termed the French missionary martyrs to a country that would later be called Canada, in which dominion we celebrate them as a feast in Canada on September 26th, as[…]
This day marks the seventh year since Justin Trudeau’s legalized marijuana here in our benighted Dominion, with Canada thereby becoming the second sovereign nation to legalize the green weed (Uruguay beat us to the punch bowl). Feel free to peruse something I wrote for Crisis, which I have re-posted here on Catholic Insight, on the moral difference[…]
