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

Day: July 21, 2017

Of Conscience and Rights

Yesterday, Dr. Sephora Tang, a young psychiatrist plying her trade in Ottawa, whom I happen to know, was on the CBC’s Ontario Today defending conscience rights of physicians, especially in the face of the euphemistic ‘medical assistance in dying’ laws forcing them to participate in euthanasia.  Doctors are fighting an uphill battle, as they are[…]

Wojtyla Institute

A reminder that Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is offering the annual Wojtyla Institute on the weekend of August 10-13th.  This year’s theme is: Beauty & Catholicism: A discussion of Art, Literature, Nature, and concepts of Beauty in the Catholic Tradition. There is a raft of fine speakers on this fundamental topic, for beauty is perhaps[…]

Forest Fires’ Footprint

I write driving (as a passenger, not to worry) through the majestic scenery of the Canadian Rockies, the views surreally obscured by the smoke of nearby raging forest fires, a natural occurrence which normally provides much benefit:  Removing old growth, preparing for new, sort of like an arboreal Lent. Of course, the effect on those[…]

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