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’s feast of the Holy Family reminds us of the fundamental importance of this ‘basic building block’ of each and every society, not just Catholic ones. Although Christian revelation and practice elevate and perfect the family unit, making it a true ecclesia domestica, a kind of domestic Church, there can be no society at all[…]
Feel free to peruse an article I just finished on Shuasku Endo’s controversial novel Silence, published in 1966, and now soon to be released as a major Hollywood production. The book follows a Jesuit missionary, Sebastian Rodrigues, forced to choose between apostasy, and saving a whole group of people being tortured. The tale analyzes the[…]
There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting sand, Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand Than the square stones of Rome. For men are homesick in[…]
For putting us spiritually into the Christmas spirit, here is the Pope Saint John Paul II’s final Christmas address, from 2004, which seems now almost like another universe: The world has changed, but also still much the same, and the words of the saintly Pope echo through time, unto eternity: 1. Christus natus est nobis,[…]
A very joyous, merry and grace-filled Christmas to all the faithful readers of Catholic Insight! Awake, awake, fling off the night! For God has sent His glorious light! And we who live in Christ’s new day, Must deeds of darkness put away.
As a number of pundits have predicted, there was a terrorist attack in Berlin, at a Christmas festival, with a multi-ton ‘lorry’ smashing full speed into a stall selling mulled wine. Eleven people were killed by the truck, with scores wounded, some severely, and a twelfth victim, the operator of the truck, killed by an[…]
More mayhem, alas, from the Muslim world, which is now in the heart of Europe. A truck driven into a Christmas market in Germany, killing 12 and injuring 48; the Russian ambassador to Turkey shot in cold blood before a crowd at an art gallery, the gunman, a police officer, shouting Islamic slogans about Syria[…]
As Christmas rolls around this year, try not to be swept up with the hoopla of consumerism and economic materialism. In our day and age, with the technology of smart phones, hi-speed internet, wi-fi access, iPads, new gaming systems, etc., it is easier than ever to get distracted from God, truth, and love. The significance[…]
From the extinction of marriage files: Italy is considering officially removing the ‘fidelity’ aspect in the promises of legal marriage; no longer will one have to be faithful to one’s wife or husband (or, I suppose now, any significant ‘partner’), and adultery, in its various manifestations, will no longer be grounds for divorce. The Italian[…]
Patrick Brown continues his castration of the Conservative Party of Ontario, this time rebuking a fellow MPP for making some off-hand comments about the Conservatives being, well, conservative. It seems Chatham-Kent-Essex MPP Rick Nichols said the following at a dinner for Christian supporters, who may become rare in the near future; after admitting that the[…]
