31 Mar

A relatively new aberration is gaining strength. It has resulted in a confusion between popular opinion and "sense of the faithful" (sensum fidelium) on matters of faith. Extensive reporting on the discussions that took place last autumn during the first session of the Synod on the Family seemed to foster the notion that something could now be regarded as true and followed in the Chrch because it was accepted by a majority of the Synod on the Family then in session. And apart from any synod, it could be held as approved if now a majority of members in the Church followed such a belief....

27 Mar

We know that the answer to that question is "Jesus did nothing wrong?" But not everyone would agree. Those who don't accept Jesus have their own criticism of Jesus to justify to themselves why they are not His followers. But in the world today, the number of members of the Catholic Chuch cited in the public press at the time when Pope Francis was elected was one billion two hundred million (1,200,000,000). If the other Christians who accept Christ are added to that figure, then we have a fantastic number of followers of Jesus. As the saying goes, "He must have done something right to have succeeded so admirably."...

17 Mar

When it first came time for me to decide what religion course I would take in grade 12, the Spiritual Exercises" course was at the bottom of my list. As a non-Catholic who had many questions about my own faith and spirituality, the idea of praying every night seemed tedious and irrelevant to me. Despite my initial hesitation, after hearing about fellow students' and teachers' positive experiences with the Exercises, the option became a serious consideration for me."...

13 Mar

The need of each one to be an evangelizer is a high priority today. At the end of January 2015, The Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization hosted a 3-day meeting in Rome with delegates from across Europe to identify new and effective ways of passing on the faith. The press release from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales about the meeting noted "There is not a single day when Pope Francis doesn't call us to go out to share our faith...

01 Mar

If there is one phrase that sums up the spirituality of Ignatius of Loyola, it is "finding God in all things." A helpful image from the Saint's own story is his lifelong tendency to gaze up at the stars at night. One can guess that he pondered the words of Psalm 8 as he looked up at the heavens: "What are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?"In a desire to find God in everything, many Jesuits over the centuries have been committed to scientific pursuits....

20 Feb

Taking out insurance on property, on travel, on health, and on one's life is recommended as prudent and a wise safeguard. In remuneration for an accident or fire or whatever is unforeseen one is reimbursed for a certain amount depending on the amount requested. If we apply the same kind of prudent action to what we can call "Etrnal Life" insurance, the premiums are miniscule compared to the forthcoming compensation . We can say and rightly so that the compensation is "out of this world." Of course we are referring to eternal happiness with God in the life that He wants to give us at the time of one's death in this world....

14 Feb

The Supreme Court of Canada's recent ruling on physician-assisted suicide was a disappointing but predictable one. The wide-spread support the ruling has received across the country reflects a widening values chasm between the dominant post-Christian humanist culture and the world-view of Catholics and many other adherents to more traditional religions. The critical difference centers around what it means to be a person....

07 Feb

On January 3, 2015, the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, Father Adolfo Nicolas, S.J., the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, wrote to all the members about the Re-creating of the Apostleship of Prayer. He had asked their executive directors to undertake a process of renewal of this ecclesial service after 170 years during which the original vision had become in need of new modalities that would be more attractive and compelling to the present age....

05 Feb

In today's globalized world, the daily commercialization and widespread exploitation of life for profit blind us and prevent us from recognizing every person as our brother and sister and not as a source of gain. From the beginning of his Pontificate, Pope Francis has strongly denounced the trafficking of human beings, calling on all to fight the traffic and look after the victims. Let us make the Holy Father's plea our own, as in his message for the 2015 World Day of Peace proclaimed, "Slaves no more, but brothers and sisters"!"...

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