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

Month: January 2023

Poisoned Love

There is much that might be said concerning this revelatory tweet – the cult-like mode of the response to covid, for one. This is uncomfortably close to Jim Jones Kool-aid. Her notion of love is also at least as problematical. ‘Anti-vaxxers did everything out of hate’, while the vaxxed, even if poisoned, radiate pure, unadorned[…]

Let the full number of the nations now take their place in the family of the patriarchs. Let the children of the promise now receive the blessing in the seed of Abraham, the blessing renounced by the children of his flesh. In the persons of the Magi let all people adore the Creator of the[…]

Cruising the Burj Khalifa

On this January 4th in 2010, the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, topping out at 2,722 ft (just over half a mile high) opened to the public. Impressive in its own way, even if a bit Babel-esque, and one wonders how many migrant workers were used in the project at quasi-slave wages,[…]

If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better. (Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, +1821)

O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity. (Saint Basil the Great, +379)

Called in the Gospels “the mother of Jesus”, Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as “the mother of my Lord”. In fact, the One whom she conceived as man by the Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the flesh, was[…]

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