New Life: A Poem
The following is a poem by Anne Schell, requiescat in pace, submitted by her friend Margaret Maines, who wrote to me: The family found this poem and passed it on... Read more.
Learn Latin This Fall!
An alumnus of Seat of Wisdom is offering personalized on-line Latin classes, one for beginners, and another in Latin hymnody, beginning in September. The cost is... Read more.
Do not fear this sickness nor any other sickness, nor any sharp and hurtful thing. Am I not here, I, who am your mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection?... Read more.
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous... Read more.
O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object... Read more.
La Vang and Le Sword
On this day in 1798, in the midst of a brutal persecution, Our Lady, holding her Son and with two angels at either side, appeared to a group of Vietnamese Catholics,... Read more.
Pope Francis and the Assumption
(Many readers of Catholic Insight likely have some, shall we say, issues with Pope Francis, and his actions of late – his ambiguous if not outright puzzling... Read more.
So then, the great Mother of God, so mysteriously united to Jesus Christ from all eternity by the same decree of predestination, immaculately conceived, an intact... Read more.
Vintage Footage: Pius XII Proclaiming the Assumption
From a different time and a different era, here is a clip of Pope Pius XII declaring the dogma of the Assumption back in 1950, with 700,000 of the faithful crammed... Read more.
Kolbe and Leisner, Brothers in Sacrifice
A brief word on Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the priesthood. Would-be seminarians used to be asked – perhaps they still are – what is the essential nature... Read more.