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
Burning Child — A politically correct poem Stop. Don’t speak a word sew lips shut with wire before barbed ire aroused. We must be kindness-carnate sweet asphyxiate in syrup before a word gets out that burns. Smother it pretend it was an embarrassment or accident inconvenient malformed useless unproductive burden on society kill it[…]
In light of the recent appointment of Bishop Guy Desrochers as the new ordinary of Pembroke, I noticed that at the same time, the diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall has more or less been abolished – or, more technically, amalgamated with the archdiocese of Ottawa. The current Archbishop, Terence Prendergast, S.J., is retiring this year, and his[…]
Propitiously, on this memorial of Canada’s first, and quite saintly, bishop, a new episcopus has been announced for the Pembroke diocese, where this writer happens to reside. Bishop Guy Desrochers is currently auxiliary bishop for Alexandria-Cornwall, ordained for that munus a year ago January, in 2019. A member of the Redemptorist Order, founded in 1732[…]
The dear reader should ponder this interview with Pierre Manent, which summarizes what is wrong with this imposition of near-universal house arrest, and the subjugation of the citizenry. Whatever one thinks of the lockdown, we should all ponder the insidious evil of socialism and collectivism. The fact that the entire citizenry of Europe, along with[…]
Today is the traditional birthday of what was dubbed – and the name stuck – the world wide web. On April 30th, back in 1993, Timothy Berners-Lee released the source code of his idea to link together a global information sharing system, linked to various computers around the world. Dr. Berners-Lee was a researcher at[…]
A blessed Third Sunday of Easter to all our readers! Christus surrexit vere, alleluia! Father Raymond de Souza has posted in the Catholic Register a nostalgic and laudatory reflection on fellow priest and journalist Father de Valk, which is worth a read. And, while on the many battles fought by the feisty Dutchman de Valk,[…]
After the collapse of the Nazi regime in the wake of World War II, there was a slew of suicides – not just amongst the uber-corrupt ‘elite’ who had organized the purges, the labour and death camps, the persecutions and anti-anything-that-was-true and good and beautiful. Hitler – according to what accounts we might piece together[…]
In an ironic twist on this ‘Earth Day’, this also marks the 105th anniversary of the first use of chemical weapons in warfare – as the Germans unleashed tons of chlorine gas on the Allied troops, wafted into their trenches during the Battle of Ypres in 1915. Even the Bosch were shocked by the horrific[…]
(A re-posting of my reflections, nearly two years ago now, of my pilgrimage to Canterbury, in light of today’s memorial to one of her greatest Archbishops, indeed one of the most outstanding bishops of any age, Anselm) I hurtle in one of France’s TGV’s towards Rome, with ancient, stone-built French villages blurring by, nestled quite[…]
If you’d like to pray to two patron saints, interceding for mitigation of this pandemic and, more to the point, its deleterious effects, you might try Saint Francis-Regis Clet, CM, (1748-1820) and Saint Jean-Gabriel Perboyre, CM, (1802-1840), who were tortured and martyred for their Christian Faith just outside Wuhan nearly two centuries ago by an[…]
