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: July 2024

Saint Simon Stock and the Scapular

Saint Simon Stock (1165-1265) was an English Carmelite, who helped establish the ancient contemplative Order in England and Italy, founding monasteries in Cambridge, Oxford, and Bologna. He organized the first Chapter of the Carmelites outside the Holy Land, at Aylesford, in Kent, in 1247, where there is still a Carmel to this day. The origins[…]

Krytia Freeland’s ‘Free’ Contraceptives

As the official government webpage puts it: …the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, and the Honourable Ya’ara Saks, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, highlighted the government’s plan to roll out the first phase of national universal pharmacare—an initiative that will be a part of[…]

Saint Camillus de Lellis: The Great Revolutionary of Charity Towards the Sick

As the secular world celebrates the French revolution on July 14th, during which thousands of innocent human persons simply were guillotined by ferocious people whose hunger for power made them forget that they were dealing with other human beings, the Church celebrates one of her own great revolutionaries. But this revolution was not political, but[…]

Christ has something in common with all creatures. With the stone he shares existence, with the plants he shares life, with the animals he shares sensation, and with the angels he shares intelligence. Thus all things are transformed in Christ since in the fullness of his nature he embraces some part of every creature. (Saint[…]

Some Observations on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Religion

Artificial intelligence (AI) is technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving capabilities.[1] These days one cannot browse the internet or watch television without hearing about AI and its impending impact on the way we live.  From education to industry and even in recreation and in our personal lives, it is[…]

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