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Catholic Insight

Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World

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The Relentless God

WERE YOU startled by what you heard in the reading of Moses holding back the anger of God? It certainly provides a picture of God different from that which we usually entertain. There God was angry, full of wrath, ready to wipe out the entire Hebrew nation because of their idolatry with the golden calf. And[…]

Serving One Master

BENEDICT XVI ANGELUS St Peter’s Square Sunday, 27 February 2011 Dear Brothers and Sisters, One of the most moving words of Sacred Scripture rings out in today’s Liturgy. The Holy Spirit has given it to us through the pen of the so-called “Second Isaiah”. To console Jerusalem, broken by misfortunes, he says: “Can a woman[…]

Against the New Integralists

Once upon a time, political discourse among orthodox Catholics was dominated by the old First Things school – Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, George Weigel, Michael Novak. These writers adopted Fr. John Courtney Murray’s reconciliation of American constitutionalism and Catholic political thought. At root, they were “classical” liberals. The great promise of liberal democracy was that[…]

Debacle in Hong Kong and the Church

When Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced the withdrawal of the extradition bill that triggered the largest and longest protests in that city’s history, protest leaders remained deeply sceptical. For months, they had been demanding the full withdrawal of the much-loathed extradition bill – which would have allowed Hong Kong residents to be sent to mainland China[…]

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