Saturday, June 6, 2026

Catholic Insight

Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World

Catholic Insight

Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World

Goodness from around the web..

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Highlight of the week:

All Hipsters Eventually Become Catholic by Edmund Mitchell
“The new hipster loves going to daily Mass at his parish, where the pews are filled with no one under the age of 50. He did it before it was cool.”

Of note:

“Aaron” (video)
A wonderful pro-life short film.

Alice von Hildebrand honoured by Pope Francis by John Burger
Cardinal Burke invests her as a Dame Grand Cross of the Pontifical Order of St. Gregory the Great.

A Meditation on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (video) by Michael Sestak

Enchiridion of Indulgences

Exorcist explains devil’s special hatred of women by S. Brinkmann
“[Satan] is like a mad man. He can’t get to Mary; she’s confirmed in grace, she defeated him. So he looks for other women.”

Marriage Doesn’t Just Happen by Anthony Esolen
“Our young people not only refrain from dating and courting—they do not know how to do it.”

Meet the new pope—same as the old pope by Kyle Smith
“Sorry, liberals: Pope Francis is not the Barack Obama of the Vatican.”

No Happy Harmony by Elizabeth Corey
Career and motherhood will always tragically conflict.

Receiving Holy Communion on the tongue (video) by Fr. Paul Nicholson
“Like medicine for the very sick” from Canada’s very own Fr. Paul Nicholson, Mission Preacher for the New Evangelization

Surmounting the ‘faceless, ominous ramparts’ of modernism by Duncan Stroik
A field guide to the new Catholic architecture.

The lost art of Catholic drinking by The Catholic Gentleman
“From man’s sweat and God’s love, beer came into the world.”

What is lacking in the Church today (video) by Fr. Steven Scheier

When God makes you wait by Anna Bachinsky
“Sometimes the waiting period of our lives is the most important time in our life.”

Why priests should celebrate the extraordinary form by Kevin M Tierney
“By offering Mass in the Extraordinary Form, you are serving fellow Catholics, and living out your vocation.”

A Closed, Unsustainable, Descending Loop

As a follow-up to my thoughts on Payette’s payout, here be a stark image of where are here in Canada. As the graph shows in, well, graphic terms, since 2025, the public sector has contributed to 95.5% of economic growth. The private sector – which funds the public sector, or is supposed to – has[…]Continue reading→

Pope Leo and a Rosary for Peace

Pope Leo XIV has asked Catholics across the world to join him in a Rosary for peace today, at 18:00 Rome time (6 pm), which would be noon from where I write (EST). If you are able, whether at that time or another, and in whatever way you pray, to join in intercession with the[…]Continue reading→

Payette’s Payout

I was glancing through some headlines, and noticed a mention of Julie Payette – engineer and astronaut and sometime the Queen’s representative in Canada – which brought back vague memories. She was appointed Governor-General by Justin Trudeau in 2017. Ms. Payette resigned in 2021, amidst claims that she created a ‘toxic work environment’, with allegations[…]Continue reading→

Your Easter Prayer

Happy Easter Lord Jesus Christ. It’s Easter day and we smile In the Lord’s in gentle light and His tomb is bare the stone is rolled A story new that must be told And Lord Jesus Christ We love you it’s so true and Lord Jesus Christ has risen From his sleep and the Promises[…]Continue reading→

Three Musical Offerings for the Annunciation

A very blessed Solemnity of the Annunciation to one and all! This March 25th marking the greatest event in history – the Incarnation of the Son of God – goes back to the very origins of the Church, and changed everything. What was lost, is now found, what was dead, is now very much alive.[…]Continue reading→

Eleganti Sums up the SSPX

Bishop Marian Eleganti, auxiliary emeritus of Chur, Switzerland, through which I happened to pilgrimage last summer, sums up the irregular situation of the SSPX. His thoughts bear pondering: Firstly, acting with full autonomy without papal mandate or confirmed mission; secondly, operating with bishops not in union with the Pope and the episcopal college; thirdly, maintaining[…]Continue reading→

The Perils of Sedevacantism

(With John-Henry Westen of LifeSite raising the question of sedevacantism, urging a petition for the cardinals to question the validity of Francis’ and Leo’s papacies, here is a re-post of something I wrote earlier, on why we must tread with great caution in declaring a papacy, or any given pope, null and void. Whatever good[…]Continue reading→

Entropic AI

Entropy may be described as the tendency of all things degrade, to move from order to disorder, from cosmos to chaos, from specificity to entropy. It is the inevitable consequence of any closed system, and encapsulated as the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Any such system – whether that be a machine, a living organism, a[…]Continue reading→

How Do We Know Christ Really Lived?

Every now and then we hear in various and sundry places one of the greatest blasphemies of them all: that Jesus never really lived and that the reports of his life and teachings, his death and resurrection, were all made up by unscrupulous men apparently bent on exploiting others for greed and power. At this[…]Continue reading→

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