A Few Good Men
This past Saturday was the solemnity of the birth of Saint John the Baptist, a feast that commemorates the beginning of the end of the Old Testament dispensation,... Read more.
A New Look
As is the vogue nowadays, Catholic Insight will be presenting a new ‘look’, an updated and improved webpage, which will be launched, providentially enough,... Read more.
Religion as Good, or Evil?
Richard Dawkins, like his intellectual forebears David Hume, Feurbach, Emile Zola and countless others, claims not to be religious. In saying so, he is not being... Read more.
Parents’ Day?
Tomorrow, besides being the much more important solemnity of Corpus Christi (at least here in Canada, more on which in a bit) is also Father’s Day, and a recent... Read more.
Real Prairie State Socialism
Pursuant to my thoughts this morning on Kathleen Wynne’s splashing other people’s money around to further fund the public service and, as a happy accidental... Read more.
Wynne’s Socialist Largesse
Alexis de Tocqueville is proved right once again, that the tyranny of the majority lies inherent in any democracy. Our erstwhile Premier, Kathleen Wynne, has just... Read more.
Captain Fantastic and Hollywood’s Anti-Catholicism
Viggo Mortensen, the same actor who played Strider/Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, seems to enjoy getting naked in his non-Tolkien films, evincing, perhaps,... Read more.
Saint Anthony and Our Lady
There is a curious connection with today’s memorial of Saint Anthony of Padua, the place in Italy where he died (in 1231), for he is also known as Saint Anthony... Read more.
An Irish Monk in Scotland
We celebrate in our particular diocese today the feast of Saint Columbkille (521-597), an Irish monk from Donegal on the wild west coast of the emerald isle, whose... Read more.
Tattoo You?
An interesting factoid I recently came across, one borne out by anecdotal evidence, is that 3 out of 10 Americans now have tattoos, and I presume that number to... Read more.