The Anti-Depressant Saint
If it ’twere not the Sixth Sunday of Easter, we would celebrate today one of the most joyful and idiosyncratic of saints, Philip Neri, (+1595), the founder... Read more.
Western Schism, Redivivus?
There is no easy solution to the present crisis in the Catholic Church, which is a crisis of faith, of doctrine, of morals and metaphysics, of soteriology and eschatology,... Read more.
Father Jonathan Morris’ Circuitous Road
I must confess that I had never heard of Father Jonathan Morris – perhaps for the simple reason that I don’t watch television – until the story of his... Read more.
Mothers and Saints
If I may be permitted a brief personal note to our Catholic Insight readers to let you all know that my dear mother, Maria Theresa Meenan (née Reilly), went to... Read more.
Bernardine and the Holy Name
Saint Bernardine of Siena (+1444) was a fiery, implacable Franciscan friar, whose apostolic work was during the tumultuous first half of the 15th century, when immorality... Read more.
The Providential Connection Between Popes John and John Paul
Pope Saint John I (470-526) was a native of Tuscany, a Deacon for years, helping govern the Church in her temporal affairs and distribution of aid – he may... Read more.
Stand up and Fight, Canada
There are two Americas, a situation not unlike circa 1860. Back then, there were those for slavery, and those against, and in 2019, there are those for abortion,... Read more.
Choosing Life and Death
In a tragic parody of Moses’ exhortation to choose the way of life and the way of death, a Malaysian girl, standing atop a tall building, asked for a poll from... Read more.
Brendan’s Fantastic Voyage
Today commemorates Saint Brendan (+577) the sixth century Irish monk, the ‘Navigator’, whose main claim to fame – besides his holiness of life... Read more.
Unity in Life and Liturgy
If you’d like a view into the speciousness and illogicality of the pro-abortion argument, you could do worse than peruse this Wired piece, on the objections to... Read more.