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
Today is the feast of Saint Andrew, Apostle, brother of Saint Peter, patron of Scotland, Russia, Ukraine and Greece, for what reason are somewhat historically obscure. Here is the Wikipedia take on the matter, whether accurate or not: According to legend, in 832 AD, Óengus II led an army of Picts and Scots into battle against the Angles, led by Æthelstan, near[…]
I am not surprised: Peter Jackson now admits that he made up the Hobbit trilogy more or less as it went along. From the very start, I was suspicious of taking a relatively small children’s book (we would say ‘young adult’ nowadays, I suppose), and making a full three two-plus hour movies out if such[…]
We will soon learn the fate of Constable James Forcillo, the Toronto police officer currently on trial for murder, who, shortly after midnight on July 18 2013 fired nine rounds from his 9 mm service pistol at 18 year-old Sammy Yatin, who was high on ecstasy (and perhaps marijuana and cocaine), semi-incoherent and brandishing a switchblade[…]
Conservative Catholics have expressed suspicion that Pope Francis is importing the values of a culture influenced by secular humanism into Church theology. He has expressed concerns with regards to the treatment of the poor, women, and ethnic and religious minorities. On the 1st of January of 2015, Pope Francis began the year on the World[…]
Masked, armed Muslims stormed the Radisson hotel in Bamako, Mali, taking 170 hostages. As I write, there is an operation underway to free them, but I suppose we should get used to this, and not just in Islamic countries like Mali. The tentacles of the ideology of ISIS, a virulent form of Islam, which bears[…]
There is a new craze, of all things, for adult colouring books. I know much has been written on the infantilization of our culture, the Boomers regressing to their earlier years, trying to find their lost youth, and the Millenials striving mightily to hold on to a youth quickly slipping away. But colouring books? Whatever[…]
Catholic Insight will publish articles on all sorts of topics, related in some way to Catholicism, from the very academic (as in the contribution below) to the more popular. This allows us to be truly ‘catholic’ or universal in our tastes, and, hopefully, appeal to a broad scope of readers. (Editor) Saint Thomas writes at[…]
The massacre in Paris yesterday marks the beginning, we may presume, of other tragedies to come. Well over one hundred dead, hundreds more injured, with a bomb going off in the Stade de France where President Hollande himself was taking in the French-German football (soccer) match. Our first response is to pray for the victims[…]
As the ten-horned apocalyptic beast called euthanasia lies in wait at our door and we begin to reflect on how to protect our loved ones, I would like to share two life-giving and hopeful experiences. The first teaching moment came when I was visiting the “House of Raising Prayer.” This large establishment, housing several hundred[…]
The Tallis Choir is holding a choral concert, Charpentier’s Midnight Mass for New France, on the evening of November 28th at the beautiful Saint Patrick’s church (141 McCaul St. in Toronto, north of Dundas, near St. Patrick Station). I will be posting an article on the power of beauty, and few things are as beautiful[…]
