He must increase, and I must decrease. (Saint John the Baptist, and every Christian)
Year: 2019
Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you! Lo, you were within, but I outside, seeking there for you, and upon the shapely things you have made I rushed headlong – I, misshapen. You were with me, but I was not with you. They held me back[…]
Technical Glitches
A blessed feast of Saint Augustine, the great bishop and doctor of the Church! As well, a note to all our faithful Catholic Insight readers: We are having some serious technical issues with the website, blocking our uploading of material, with the exception, at this point, of brief notes. We hope to have the difficulty[…]
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. (G.K. Chesterton)
Pray for Canada
It’s getting darker out here! No, your eyes do not deceive you. Nor does the steady drumbeat of depressing news confirming that, since the election of the Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government in 2015, the moral fabric of Canada has become ever more frayed, making any repair seem highly unlikely. While it’s true this process of[…]
How then account for the fact that these men, who in Christ’s lifetime did not stand up to the attacks by the Jews, set forth to do battle with the whole world once Christ was dead – if, as you claim, Christ did not rise and speak to them and rouse their courage?…It is evident,[…]
The Devil and the Deputy
Father Arturo Sosa is at it again: You may recall a few years ago, when the Jesuit Superior – they sure can pick ‘em – claimed that the words of Christ in the Gospel were, well, not really the words of Christ. Or at least we don’t know if they were His words, for they[…]
If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious…No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men. (Saint Rose of[…]
Has anyone ever come away from her troubled or saddened or ignorant of the heavenly mysteries? Who has not returned to everyday life gladdened and joyful because his request had been granted by the Mother of God? (Saint Amadeus of Lausanne, Cistercian, +1159)
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist. (Pope Saint Pius X,[…]