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
Is President Trump a Cyrus Redivivus, a type of the ancient, quasi-pagan king who, recognizing their goodness and chosenness by a God he scarcely knew, led the Israelites from captivity to freedom? The analogy is a limited one, for Trump is not a pagan, but, after being brought up Presbyterian, with Vincent Normal Peale as[…]
In the passing affairs of this world, it is election day in the United States, and Church’s calendar, with the eternity of God’s heaven suffusing this world, it is the memorial of one of the Church’s beloved saints, Martin de Porres, whose life was filled with miracles. We will have more to say on both[…]
(A note from Father Raymond de Souza, on today’s beatification of Servant of God, Father Michael McGivney) Dear Brother Priests, Parishioners and Friends, Praised be Jesus Christ! Now and forever! Today, Saturday, 31st October 2020, Father Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, will be beatified in Hartford, Connecticut. I am a Fourth Degree Knight[…]
Could this happen in Canada? One wonders, with all those detention centres being constructed in remote locations, for reasons that are opaque, to which Randy Hillier could receive no clear answer. As one person wrote to me, Slovaki is the California of Covid trends – on the cusp of the curve. Here’s hoping we derail[…]
Where does one even begin, as events outpace our capacity to absorb and assimilate them? The U.S. Senate, by a rather slim majority (52 to 48) has confirmed Mrs. Amy Coney Barrett as the newest member of the Supreme Court of the United States. We should bridle our enthusiasm, for if our hope is not[…]
October 24th marks several anniversaries: The Treaty of Westphalia was signed on this day in 1648, ending the 30-year war of ‘religion’, fought primarily between Catholics and Protestants, although sides got mixed with nationalistic ambitions clouding spiritual principles, and allegiance to the one, true Faith. The syncretic motto imposed after the war spoke of the[…]
First, some good news, much needed at present: Poland has almost – and we must admit, almost – banned abortion outright, making illegal termination of pregnancy for ‘fetal defects’, which was the purported reason for most abortions in the Catholic nation. Astounding, in our secularist era, and we should praise and give thanks to God[…]
Had you heard of the Great Barrington Declaration? Neither had I, until I came across a brief mention that searches for it have been submerged by Google – down the memory hole and it’s scarcely two weeks old – promulgated on October 4th, 2020. I would urge readers to peruse the text – it’s not[…]
October, as I just learned, has been decreed Down’s Syndrome Awareness Month, a worthy endeavour to celebrate the joyful, solid fact that every life is worth living, to fullness of its potential. Yet fewer and fewer children with Trisomy-21 – a genetic disorder discovered by Dr. Jerome Lejeune, whose own life was celebrated in these[…]
We are heartened to see a few cogent rebuttals to George Weigel’s odd and indefensible defense of the nuclear incineration of the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. First Things, to their credit, responded, as did Ed Feser in the Catholic Herald, and Father Pokorsky and Jeffrey Mirus in Catholic Culture, along with yours truly[…]
