Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Today in Canada we celebrate Blessed Louis-Zepherin Moreau, (1824 – 1901) an exemplary bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe in Quebec. Born rather sickly and undersized to a large Quebecois farming family, he dedicated himself to studies and eventually to the priesthood, enduring many vicissitudes. Due to his continuing ill-health, it was recommended to Louis that he was[…]
“Sorry. I’m blowing up your phone,” I wrote after sending a barrage of text messages regarding the election of Pope Leo XIV. “I’m blowing up several phones. Mine is blowing up, too.” It was. On Monday afternoon, May 8, 2025, I swiftly became engaged in conversations (text, email, and verbal) with friends and colleagues, academics[…]
We have it on good authority that nothing is impossible with God – or, as the Gabriel puts it, all things are possible with the Almighty, the All-Powerful Omnipotens in our Creed. So when we speak of ‘impossible’ causes, we must qualify the term, for impossibility – or, as some say desperation and desperate causes –[…]
“The Church needs to promote apologetics, which is aimed at affirming the truth of Christian revelation, the harmony of faith and reason, and a sound understanding of freedom.” Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict’s remark is immensely relevant to our time. The question might well be raised: since the intellectual assault on religion has been chronic[…]
Fittingly, in this month of Mary, we celebrate on this May 21st Saint Eugène de Mazenod (+1861), the 19th century founder of the Missionaries Oblate of Mary Immaculate. Born in 1782, Eugène had an idyllic childhood in France, at least for the first seven or so years, for his world, everyone else’s, was turned upside[…]
The twentieth century saw the rise of various vicious anti-Catholic regimes, totalitarian and ruthless in their demonic fury to stamp out the Church. Ecrasez l’infame! Voltaire would sign off his letters, but they – the Nazis, the Communists, the Spanish ‘Republicans’, and, for our purposes today, the atheistic Mexican government which, for reasons that are[…]
(To clarify, Catholic Insight is not a ‘political’ magazine, even if I have some hesitation in making too hermetically-sealed categories. There is a right, and a duty, to critique our political leaders, especially when their policies go contrary to right reason, the moral law and the Church’s revealed truth. Furthermore, we have our own category[…]
It is enough to notice that if some small mistake were made in doctrine, huge blunders would be made in human happiness. A sentence phrased wrong about the nature of symbolism would have broken all the best statues in Europe. A slip in the definitions might stop all the dances: might wither all the Christmas[…]
This May 20th marks the 1700th anniversary of the opening session of the Council of Nicaea, which this Year of Jubilee, 2025 commemorates. Nicaea is traditionally held to be the first ecumenical council of the Church (prescinding from the ‘council of Jerusalem’, from ca. 48 A.D. recounted in Acts 15). Nicaea was called by Emperor[…]
We Christians continue to celebrate the gift of new life in the Resurrection of Jesus this and every Easter season. Much of the debate and controversy surrounding this great Feast of Feasts is centered on the historicity of the event itself. Rightfully so, but it should also give us the opportunity to reflect on an[…]
