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: February 2025

The Planets Align

This evening, February 20th, and again on February 28th, seven of the planets align in the night sky, a rare event, the official term for which is syzygy. See the link for where you can see them. It seems 5:45 pm, EST, is the optimal time. Should we concern ourselves with ‘signs in the heavens’?[…]

Tell them to ask peace through the Immaculate Heart of Mary; God has placed it in her hands. Oh that I could put into the heart of everybody the flame that I feel burning within my breast and which makes me love so much the Heart of Jesus and the Heart of Mary.” (Saint Jacinta[…]

White Rose, Vance, Freedom and Truth

On February 18th, 1942, the Gestapo rounded up the leaders of the White Rose resistance movement, four of them young students, and one a professor, at the University of Munich – Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl. All had become disillusioned with the Nazi movement, and when they discovered its true evil, this turned to[…]

Henry Walpole and William Byrd

Tertullian’s oft-quoted phrase, “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church,” immediately evokes scenes of the early Christians in the Roman Colosseum, but this adage remains ageless across the centuries. St. Henry Walpole (1558-1595) was born in Docking, Norfolk, into the turbulence of the English Reformation. As a young man, he studied[…]

Of Flags and Dominions

Today marks the 60th anniversary of our adoption, back in 1965 under Lester B. Pearson, of a the ‘maple leaf’ as our national flag, replacing the richer symbolism of the Canadian Red Ensign. Whatever one’s aesthetic tastes, symbols mean something. The union jack, with Saint Andrew’s and Saint George’s Crosses, along with the lion rampant[…]

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