The Ontario's government announced yesterday that it intends to pass legislation called, Putting Student Achievement First Act. This is to make changes to public and separate education. The government claims it's to improve school board governance, student learning and teacher training. The Doug Ford government has taken over the governance of eight school boards. It was done over the concern of financial mismanagement, growing deficits, and depleted reserves. The boards under supervision are: Toronto District School Board (TDSB), Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), Peel District School Board (PDSB), York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB), Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB), Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB), Near North District School Board (NNDSB), Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board (DPCDSB). These boards will remain under supervision until fiscal mismanagement and governance issues are fully resolved. Some of the changes are to reduce …
Mon Apr 13, 2026 - 3:20 pm EDTMon Apr 13, 2026 - 4:16 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) — Before President Donald Trump publicly criticized American-born Pope Leo XIV, three U.S. cardinals – all appointed by Pope Francis – joined CBS’ 60 Minutes TV show to deliver leftist talking points and denounce Trump. During their conversation with correspondent Nora O’Donnell, Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, and Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., seemed to give credit for the resurgence of Catholicism within the U.S., especially young people, to Pope Leo. The interview focused on issues that are favored by leftists, including allowing mass immigration into the U.S. and the condemning of military operations, while steering clear of abortion, euthanasia, and the impact of unbridled immigration on tens of millions of economically vulnerable American families. The three were not asked about the scandal of clergy homosexual predation, which still casts …
Every Catholic in the world must defend Pope Leo XIV in his message of peace against the Israeli and United States' war with Iran. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops made this statement: 'I am disheartened that the President chose to write such disparaging words about the Holy Father. Pope Leo is not his rival; nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls.' We agree. Catholics around the globe must get behind this Christian view. We need to promote peace, truth and good will. That's at the heart of the Christian response to resolving conflict. It's what Christ did and instructed his disciples to do. Trump has criticized Pope Leo on his Truth Social account. He writes the Pope is "weak on crime, and terrible for foreign policy.” This was Trump's answer as the Pope has been urging him to make peace and stop the war. Trump goes on to say about the Pope, “I donʼt …
I'm thinking about it, smell the burning wood? I mean seriously what Trumptard is doing is outrageous, but that is just the part "Orange man," is playing for the masses. Attacking the Pope is a strategy to humiliate and disenfranchise Catholics and it is a long term strategy of Turning Point USA!
Seriously 'defend Pope Leo.." I would gladly defend him if he were a true pope and not a globalist shill and sell out. He should have stuck to matters of Faith and the salvation of souls instead of calling out Trump. I would have no respect for a politician pretending to be pope.. and I have NO respect for a pretended pope pretending to be a politician
Editors’ Note: This essay is adapted from a talk for the Society for Classical Learning at Capstone Classical Academy in Fargo, North Dakota, on March 12, 2026. Larry Arnn, the president of Hillsdale College, wrote recently about a young man at the college named Luke who has started an organization named after the 12th Legion Fulminata of ancient Rome. The emperor Lucinius put members of the 12th Legion in freezing water to die unless they renounced Christianity. In memory of that Legion, Luke and the members of his group go out to a lake in freezing weather before the sun rises and stand in the water singing hymns and reciting Bible passages. Arnn writes, “This is a very young-mannish thing to do, but what do they learn from it? To serve. To be strong. To be free. To look up. These are the kind of young Americans who will save our country.” These young students’ steely determination to embrace suffering in pursuit of virtue calls to mind C. S. Lewis’s favorite philosopher, Boethius …
For this Divine Mercy Sunday, we post a reflection from the book, Lent and Easter With the Church Fathers by Libreria Editrice Vaticana. It's by St. John Chrysostom from his "Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew." Keep in mind that as we enter this Easter season or Eastertide it lasts until Pentecost Sunday, that's 50 days. We must let the meaning of Easter transform our souls and hearts. Just as Christ did not keep his divinity for himself, when he made himself man and offered himself as an innocent victim for the good of all, we too are called to do so for our brothers and sisters. But who are our brothers and sisters, who is our neighbour? Is it not enough to pray in the mornings and evenings and to go to Mass every Sunday? Is it not enough to obey the commandments and be good people? If it is enough, let’s ask the homeless in our cities, the women exploited on the corners, the children forced to deal drugs, the lonely sick and elderly persons, and the unemployed fathers with a family …
The U.S. birth rate reached a new record low in 2025, according to provisional Vital Statistics data released this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Last year, the U.S. recorded only 53.1 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age (ages 15-44), a 1.3% decline from 2024 and a 23% decline from 2007. The decline reflects a social shift as women are choosing to bear children later in life, as well as the combined weight of decades of social changes that undermined the American family. The U.S. birth rate today is so far below historical averages that the total number of annual births is much smaller than in previous years, when the U.S. had a significantly smaller population. For example, there were 4.3 million births in 1961, when the U.S. population was 184 million, slightly larger than the current population of Bangladesh. In 2025, there were only 3.6 million births in the entire U.S., despite a population of 342 million. In 1961, the general fertility rate …
Canada's Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, is another veiled attack on Christian belief. It changes the criminal code to include measures to fight hate propaganda and hate-motivated crimes. The law creates new criminal offences for obstructing and intimidating access to places of worship, schools, seniors' residences and the display of hate symbols in public places. Readers may have already realized the problem with such law: who gets to define the meaning of "hate"? To get a better idea of what the law could mean once passed we can look at the recent guilty decision against Finnish MP Paivi Rasanen. She expressed her Christian views in a pamphlet and for that she was convicted of "insulting" speech. When this happens everyone becomes afraid of speaking openly and freely. Rasanen had written a pamphlet back in 2004 expressing Christian teaching on marriage and human sexuality. The court ruled the publication's content “insults homosexuals as a group.” She did not harass anyone. The …
Liberal values are according to PM “Catholic” Marc Carney are abortion and all the sexual letters of the alphabet. Euthanasia too. Sorry, not my values and those of many other Canadians.
Darwinism and residential schools lethal concoction of culture genocide that drag the church through one of its darkest history. A lesson not to trust the Science.
There is something terribly wrong with that kind of people. Terribly terribly wrong. For 2000 years already. And that, my friends, is a very long time. Go figure it.
by Libreria Editrice Vaticana, we post the short reflection for Wednesday in the Octave of Easter. Keep in mind that this is Easter Week and Easter season or Eastertide lasts until Pentecost Sunday, that's 50 days. Cyril and John of Jerusalem, Mystagogical Catecheses II, 5In the exchange of Christ for humanity, we only have to gain: his all for our nothing—who would not call that a bargain? Yes, it’s all strange and unimaginable, but who thinks they can know God’s plans? Perhaps we do, who do not even really know who we truly are? Our task is to trust in him and to carry our cross, always looking to him. O strange and paradoxical thing! We are not truly dead, nor truly buried, nor truly crucified and risen, but imitation by image brings true salvation. Christ was truly crucified and truly buried, and he is truly risen. So many graces are lavished upon us because we imitate him by participating in his suffering, and true salvation is earned. O boundless mercy! Christ even received nails …
This is the dangerous and threatening language that U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social just hours ago: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran! Is this the language of a sane president of any nation? Who asks God to bless the very people he wants to kill? Only a demented person could do that. It's desperate words a madman. Who is actually been doing for "47 years (the) extortion, corruption, and death?" Here's a comment made online that best up the insanity that is coming in both words and action from …
Trump is fulfilling a script about the destruction of the Israeli state and Christianity using the Muslim force united with the Communist Russian and China states. Cui Bono? Certainly not the Christian West or the Israeli state. Russia and China are only gaining strength from the actions of the US. It is all about the "Errors of Russia!"
American Bishop Robert Barron posted a message for Easter on his Word on Fire YouTube channel titled, "The Earthquake of the Resurrection." He writes, "Friends, Happy Easter! We’ve come to the high point of the Church’s liturgical year, the reason why we’re Christians at all. If Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, Christianity is a waste of time; the resurrection is the hinge point, the standing or falling point, of our faith. Taking Easter seriously is the source of our joy and our hope. Everything else is secondary to the great declaration of our Easter faith. In light of that, I want to talk to you today about earthquakes." His talk is in the video posted below. In his commentary, he tells us not to domesticate the message of Easter for it's truly an earthquake that should shake and radically transform everything about us. The Resurrection of Christ is: ... the earthquake. That's the light. Don't allow them to domesticate it. That's my message to fellow Christians listening to me. …
From the book, Lent and Easter With the Church Fathers by Libreria Editrice Vaticana, we post the reflection for Easter Sunday. Keep in mind that this is Easter Week and Easter season or Eastertide lasts until Pentecost Sunday, that's 50 days. We must let the meaning of Easter transform our souls and hearts. Easter: Resurrection Sunday: St. John Chrysostom, On the Resurrection, 3-5: Jesus has freed us from sin and from the power of death. He has joined what was separated by Adam and Original Sin. He redeemed the corrupt world through his Death on the Cross, and he paid the ransom for us all through his Resurrection. He has reestablished the original order before handing everything over to the Father on the last day. Let us celebrate this great and glorious feast of the Resurrection of the Lord, let us celebrate it with joy and devotion; the Lord is risen and has reawakened the whole earth. Adam sinned and died; Christ did not sin, but died. This is a new and surprising reality: the …
message. It's especially important this Easter, as the war against Iran and in Ukraine have not ended. ... Brothers and sisters, through his resurrection, the Lord confronts us even more powerfully with the dramatic reality of our freedom. Before the empty tomb, we can be filled with hope and wonder, like the disciples, or with fear like the guards and the Pharisees, forced to resort to lies and subterfuge rather than acknowledge that the one who had been condemned is truly risen!In the light of Easter, let us allow ourselves to be amazed by Christ! Let us allow our hearts to be transformed by his immense love for us! Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent. Indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people. Indifferent to the …