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
A blessed solemnity of Christ the King to all our readers, a feast first instituted by Pope Pius XI, with his encyclical Quas Primas (December 11, 1925), well worth a read through. Prior to the revisions of Vatican II, and still in the usus antinquior, this was celebrated on the last Sunday of October –[…]
The conviction of David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress is a tragic one for the pro-life cause. As you may have read, they were found guilty of exposing, in an undercover sting operation, Planned Parenthood’s gruesome and deeply evil ‘business’ of selling the body parts of aborted babies. Whatever one thinks of their[…]
November 23rd is another of those triptych saint days, with three on offer to lift our spirits as we approach Christ the King, Advent and the beginning of a new liturgical year. Saint Clement of Rome (+99 A.D.) was either the first, second or third Pope after Saint Peter, depending on how they are counted,[…]
The feast of the dedication of ‘Saint John Lateran‘ commemorates the primary church in Christendom, the ‘mother and head’ of all other churches, the Holy Father’s own cathedral, tracing its lineage back to Constantine, who, under the authority of Pope Sylvester I, built the first basilica on the site, owned by the Laterini family, in[…]
By one of those historical coincidences that are all part of God’s good providence guiding all things to their final end, besides being Guy Fawkes’ Day (1605), this is also the anniversary eight decades on (1688) of the landing of William of Orange at the coastal town of Brixham in southern England, instantiating what some[…]
Dr. Don DeMarco, a Canadian, conservative, orthodox philosophy professor – a rare bird – has penned an all-too-real description of the state of Canada as an authoritarian, more-or-less communist regime, just primed for the jackboots, metaphorical or otherwise. Already the pressure is on to ‘conform’, subtle for now, but getting more overt with each passing[…]
‘Tis All Hallowed Eve, the vigil of All Saints’ Day, first officially instituted by Pope Gregory III (731 – 741), during what we know ironically as the ‘dark ages’, for during which many things of light occurred, such as this glorious feast, in an oratory in Saint Peter’s (not the glorious structure we now stands[…]
‘Rachel’ Mackinnon is a cyclist smashing speed records and winning golds across the track, which may sound at first glance sound like Lance, as in Armstrong epic, circa mid-nineties, before his drug scandal surfaced (about which I have my own reserve, with a suspicion that they were, and are, all doing some sort of ‘drug’).[…]
We have not written too much on the Amazon Synod, by and large since I can scarcely bear to read about it, and others on other sites, such as First Things, offer a play-by-play far more detailed than anything we might muster from our more distant vantage point. But about the recent theft from of[…]
And thick darkness shall cover the land…The widespread blackouts in Manitoba and California – regions which otherwise share almost nothing else in common – signify our tenuous hold on what we call ‘civilization’. Contrary to Rousseau’s idealized version of the ‘noble savage’, life in its primitive state without creature comforts is more as his contemporary[…]
