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
As we approach the end of this calendar year, we should give thanks to God for all the blessings He has sent, for the multitude of gifts and graces, often hidden beneath what seems banality or even outright suffering. The primary purpose of this life is a journey to the next, and as Saint Augustine[…]
I have to suppress a knowing smile (well, come to think of it, I don’t suppress it at all) when I hear of science ‘discovering’ something that the Church has known all along. Such occurred in 1927 when the Belgian priest-mathematician-cosmologist, Father Georges LeMaitre, using Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity (published in a short treatise[…]
A very merry, blessed and joyous Christmas to all our readers, which we hope is filled with God’s grace and good cheer. Someone sent me this morning these words from Scott Hahn, which are worth reflecting on as we celebrate and rejoice with what families we have, or are part of, wherever you may be,[…]
(Since a number of reviews of the latest Star Wars entry are making the rounds, including one rather odd one in First Things that seems to turn these outings into actual philosophically-deep musings, I thought I would republish this review I wrote when I had the misfortune of watching the first in this new series[…]
In this last week of Advent, there are two saints, oft overlooked, celebrated in a muted way each year: Peter Canisius (1521 – 1597), a Dutch Jesuit who traversed thousands of miles across Europe in his ministry, and John of Cantius (1390 – 1473), a Polish priest and professor at the University of Krakow. They[…]
Like the seemingly inextinguishable California wildfires, the aptly named ‘Pervnado’ continues its own incineration of the careers of various media and political types, all of them males, almost all of them white. Curiously, so far, sports and music figures, whose proclivities in these domains are notorious, have been rather immune, but their time may come.[…]
We celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe today, a commemoration elevated to a feast on the eve of the Third Millennium by Pope John Paul II, who also declared her patroness of all of ‘America’, south, central, and north, a vast expanse of land from the Arctic circle to Tierra del Fuego jutting towards Antarctica. Appearing[…]
Today we celebrate Pope Damasus, who in his office in the Chair of Peter from 366 to 384, greatly influenced the history of the Church: It was he who presided over the Synod of Rome in 382 which determined the Canon of Scripture (definitively decreed over a millennium later at the Council of Trent in[…]
What are we to say about Pope Francis placing into the Acta Apostolicae Sedis (the official compilation of Magisterial texts) the interpretation of the Argentinian bishops of Amoris Laetitia, that divorced and remarried Catholics may in certain cases receive Communion, along with his own hand-written note that ‘no other interpretation is possible’? Well, for one[…]
A blessed and joyous solemnity of the Immaculate Conception to all Catholic Insight readers. Pope Blessed Pius IX, Pio Nono, proclaimed the doctrine of Our Lady’s perpetual sinlessness on this day in 1854, in the Apostolic Constitution Ineffabilis Deus. Four years later, the Virgin appeared a number of times to the young peasant girl, Bernadette[…]
