October 16, 2025 - Catholic Insight

By Thought for the DayPosted on October 16, 2025Posted in Quotes

I have never lost confidence in our Heavenly Father (Saint Marguerite d’Youville, +1771)

Saint Marguerite d’Youville

By Catholic InsightPosted on October 16, 2025Posted in Featured Highlights, Saints

MARGUERITE d’YOUVILLE, the first native Canadian to be elevated to sainthood, was born October 15, 1701 at Varennes, Quebec. She was the eldest of six children born to Christophe Dufrost de Lajemmerais and Marie-Renée Gaultier. Her father died when she was seven years old leaving this family of six in great poverty. It was only[…]

Asinine Astrology

By Carl SundellPosted on October 16, 2025Posted in Articles, Featured

Astrology today is a $3 billion dollar online industry. According to one source, 95% of Americans know their astrological sign and roughly 70% of millennials turn to astrology seeking guidance and reassurance in times of trouble. Astrology is one of the oldest methods of human reckoning. It is associated with prehistoric religions that were based[…]

A Panoply of Four Saints

By John Paul Meenan, EditorPosted on October 16, 2025Posted in Saints, Editor's Corner

We celebrate a veritable panoply of saints today: In Canada, we have the memorial of Saint Marguerite D’Youville (+1771), the first Canadian-born saint. She was a lovely Quebecoise, who married young to a dissolute man, Francois d’Youville, a dissipated bootlegger who sold liquor to the easily-addicted Natives, and would disappear for long periods. He did[…]

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