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
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[…]
In light of the upcoming parliamentary decision to be made concerning so-called ‘euthanasia laws’, we have decided to re-print over the next while a series of articles on the origins and philosophy of L’Arche, the community founded by Jean Vanier (the son of George Vanier, Governor-General of Canada from 1959-1967) to care for the disabled[…]
Justin Trudeau has been elected as Canada’s 23rd Prime Minister, the son of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada’s 15th. I never thought I would see the day, after living through his father’s disastrous ministership when I was a child. Trudeau Sr. legalized abortion and free-for-all divorce (amongst other things leading to our current moral-legal collapse).[…]
Trudeau and his Liberal majority government is following through on its plan to move 25,000 Syrian refugees (migrants?) to Canada. Questions abound, not just logistically, and the cost of this endeavour (on the CBC today, I heard they were actually thinking of using cruise ships to ferry them over…that, or a fleet of jumbo jets), but also[…]
I just took in the new American-everyman Tom Hank’s movie, Captain Philips which, surprisingly from its limited quality, has made over $218 million so far, and won six Academy awards. Directed in shaky-realistic-video by Paul Greengrass, who also oversaw two of the Bourne movies, the film has a stark realism. The problem, I think, is[…]
Long ago, there was a surefire test by which to recognize a truly cultured person: anyone who could hear the William Tell overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. One’s reaction to the word “mediaeval” is a similar sort of test for Catholics. You fail if “mediaeval” has for you connotations of ignorance and bigotry.[…]
