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
If I may be permitted a brief personal note to our Catholic Insight readers to let you all know that my dear mother, Maria Theresa Meenan (née Reilly), went to eternity this morning at about ten to seven, in my and my Dad’s arms, here at their home. She had received the Last Rites just[…]
Saint Bernardine of Siena (+1444) was a fiery, implacable Franciscan friar, whose apostolic work was during the tumultuous first half of the 15th century, when immorality was rife, and the Church had stumbled into schism, with three rival claimants to the papacy in what we now know of as the Great Western Schism in 1378,[…]
What Christ said of the poor might be said of intellectuals: they will always be with us. Then the question naturally arises: in what ways are we fortunate, or unfortunate, that this is so? The Role of the Intellectual If there is a mark of distinction for authentic intellectuals, it is the one identified by[…]
Pope Saint John I (470-526) was a native of Tuscany, a Deacon for years, helping govern the Church in her temporal affairs and distribution of aid – he may have been the ‘Deacon John’ to whom the great philosopher Boethius dedicated his five religious tractates. Like the future Pope, Boethius was also to suffer martyrdom[…]
The ‘Rosary of Modern Sorrows’ (RMS) is made by the American company, ‘Contemplative Rebellion’ (CR) and is sold on-line for US$62. It is unique, quite eye-catching and the CR web-site invites us “into guided meditation on the pain and suffering of our brothers and sisters in the U.S. and around the world.” The big issue[…]
There are two Americas, a situation not unlike circa 1860. Back then, there were those for slavery, and those against, and in 2019, there are those for abortion, and those against, or those for the unborn, and those, well, who would have them put to death at the whim of their mother. Thus, we have[…]
In a tragic parody of Moses’ exhortation to choose the way of life and the way of death, a Malaysian girl, standing atop a tall building, asked for a poll from her Instagram followers – what term does one use? – asking the fateful question: Really Important, Help Me Choose D/L Which, translating from Intragramese,[…]
Today commemorates Saint Brendan (+577) the sixth century Irish monk, the ‘Navigator’, whose main claim to fame – besides his holiness of life – is a seven year trans-Atlantic voyage in a boat made of animal-hides upon which he and sixteen fellow monks embarked, discovering North America many centuries before the time Giovanni Caboto –[…]
If you’d like a view into the speciousness and illogicality of the pro-abortion argument, you could do worse than peruse this Wired piece, on the objections to the ‘fetal heartbeat’ bills which are being legislated in certain states (Alabama being the most recent example, setting up the question of abortion returning to the Supreme Court,[…]
In today Office of Readings for the feast of Saint Matthias, Saint John Chrysostom writes ‘neque dixerunt: Elige, sed ostende electum – quem elegeris, inquit‘, that is, the Apostles were not told to choose who was to replace Judas the traitor, but asked God to show them the one whom He had already chosen. I[…]
