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: June 2024

Blesseds Vasyl Velykchovskyand Nykyta Budka: Hidden Ukrainian and Canadian Heroes

The subversive doctrines of atheistic communism and socialism have infected nations, institutions, media, education, and souls, throughout the world. Make no mistake, as Pius XI declared in Divini Redemptoris (1937) that communism and socialism are by their very nature not only atheistic, but anti-God, and anti-Church, indeed, the very religions of anti-Christ. It is in[…]

Pope Benedict and Saint Cyril of Alexandria

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, 3 October 2007 Saint Cyril of Alexandria Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today too, continuing our journey following the traces left by the Fathers of the Church, we meet an important figure: St Cyril of Alexandria. Linked to the Christological controversy which led to the Council of Ephesus[…]

Of Dignity and Dignities

I finally read Dignitas Infinita, the recent document on human dignity from the DDF (Dicastery – formerly Congregation – for the Doctrine of the Faith). Hopefully, these few thoughts complement those of Dr. Alexander Lozano. Much ink has already been spilled, and I will say that, on first glance, it is good the Church reaffirms[…]

Bach and the Baptist

On this Solemnity of Saint John the Baptist, in 1724, Bach first presented one of several cantatas he composed on the great saint and precursor of Christ, Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam (Christ our Lord came to the Jordan). Unlike other more iconoclastic Protestants, Lutherans kept much of the iconography, statuary and saints of[…]

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