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

Year: 2019

Food for the Mind

A few good reads we might suggest: In the metaphysical maelstrom that oft characterizes this current Magisterium, a nugget of clarity, in the recent document from the Congregation for Education on the insanity of gender fluidity. Male and Female He Created Them explains in no uncertain terms that in the beginning we were created, as[…]

0 Lord, if only You were known! If only this land of Indians were converted to You and sin abolished forever! If only You were loved! Yes, dear Lord, if all the tortures that captives undergo in this land, if all the stark intensity of their sufferings should be my lot, I offer myself for[…]

Foxes and Birds

A friend of mine and I have a long-standing debate about sermons. He prefers a straightforward approach, while I am more inclined to resort to symbolism. For instance, if he were in preaching on today’s Gospel, he would content himself with saying, “Jesus was homeless because he surrendered himself totally to his mission of preaching;[…]

Canada’s Dominion Day

A blessed Dominion Day to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of ‘Canada’ as a (mostly) independent part of the British Commonwealth since the signing into effect of such in 1867. Although we gained further sovereignty, of a sort, with Pierre Trudeau’s 1982 Constitutional Act – along with his bland, but[…]

Beauty will save the world… The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.  (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

The Purpose of Beauty

Like many people, I have a love affair with old churches. I lived in Rome a few years ago, and I am surprised I was at all coherent during that period. The wealth of churches—small ones down little cobblestoned side streets, gloriously gaudy ones at the end of large piazzas, and sparse haunting ones with[…]

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