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
It is fitting that we celebrate the Apostle Barnabas, the ‘son of consolation’, or the ‘son of encouragement’, in this season of the Holy Spirit. For the Hebraic terminus of his name, the navi (consolation, or even prophet) after the bar (son) is one of the titles of the Third Person of the Trinity, the[…]
He died twelve years ago Love of her life, joy of her heart Father of her children Grandfather always with a smile Taken after a short illness Cancer stricken fighting to the end. She still lays a place at table for him Empty chair where he sat Remembers happiness they shared Thankfully they met[…]
We should be cautious of private revelations, and hence, in all the remarkable charisms given to Blessed Anna Maria Taigi (+ June 9th, 1837), it is the sanctity of her life that should stand out, her desire to suffer with Christ for souls. She was also given, almost unique in the annals of the saints,[…]
Mary, Mother of the Church, 2019 Dear Readers and Supporters of Catholic Insight, We sent out this appeal letter in print form, sent out via regular mail, in Holy Week. So, forgive us if you have already seen this, but we are now re-posting the letter in the on-line forum. As you may know, the[…]
We celebrate today the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, an ancient title of the Virgin, which was formally instituted into the Holy Mass and the Litany of Loreto by Paul VI during the Second Vatican Council, with a subsequent official votive Mass in 1975. Pope Francis, through Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation[…]
If it ’twere not Pentecost Sunday – the second highest liturgical celebration in the Church’s calendar (see Pater Ignotus’ reflection), and a blessed one indeed to all our readers – we would ordinarily celebrate in our particular diocese today the feast of Saint Columbkille (521-597), an Irish monk from Donegal on the wild west coast[…]
Discouragement has to be one of the most debilitating feelings. It’s not so much depressing as it is zapping of any kind of energy that you had to pursue your goal. It can come in many forms: your plans are foiled, the promotion at work did not come, or you feel as if everything you[…]
On the canary in the coalmine files, one headline declared that web traffic for the Daily Mail decreased by 50% after Google ‘tweaked’ its algorithm, an ominous sign of the totalitarian control over the flow of information that only seems to be getting worse. Google controls 92% of searches on the Internet, with YouTube (owned[…]
This is the milestone of 75 years since so-called D-Day landings at Normandy, when 150,000 soldiers – many of them young and untested – of various nations on the Allied side stormed the beaches of the north of France, then occupied and fortified by the Nazi German forces. The losses were heavy, with an estimated[…]
Saint Norbert (+1134) was a zealous bishop and founder, at the forefront of the ecclesial reform named after Pope Gregory VII, Hildebrand, who was its initial impetus. Norbert was born ten years before the death of the influential Pontiff in 1085, but it was not until his 35th year, in 1115, that he underwent a[…]
