Catholic Insight

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

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Crucifixion

Our March 2014 cover artist, Joseph Ferrant, is the sixth of eight children. He is currently studying English and Theatre at Redeemer University and is a student at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom. He has been drawing for quite a long time, and has studied art formally at the Academy of Realist Art in Toronto.[…]

Chocolate bars

They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labour and laughter as a tired man looks at flies. – G. K. Chesterton, The Secret People I learned my views about money from my father when I was about eleven years old. My dad worked at one of the[…]

Praying for strangers a world away

My fiancé can sit for hours reading the news. First he cycles through his favourite Spanish papers, and then he ventures into the English ones. His interest in “the news” verges almost on obsession, and he doesn’t understand my aversion to most news sources. If I do read a paper, I will turn immediately to[…]

Signs and Mysteries: Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols

Signs and Mysteries: Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols by Mike Aquilina illustrated by Lea Marie Ravotti Our Sunday Visitor, 2008 ISBN 978-1-59276-450-1 More devotional than academic, this book begins by discussing the theology, history, and culture of ancient Christian symbols. Aquilina focuses on the Bible and the Church fathers’ explanations and discussions for each symbol. Ancient[…]

Musica Vaticana

Musica Vaticana Featuring Christopher Jackson (Artistic Director) ATMA Classique, 2011 The Cappella Giulia is the name of St. Peter’s choir in Rome, founded in 1513 by Julius II. All the composers on this CD provided music covering the High Renaissance and Baroque periods. Francesco Soriano (1549-1621), Orazio Benevoli (1605-1672), Giovanni De Macque (1550-1614), Roland De[…]

Women in combat

Have you noticed there are an alarming number of combative females on television? I am not talking about women who are angry at everything but rather women who play “tough-guy” characters. The men are the calm writers or the slackers who need protection—while the women get their butts kicked by the bad guys, run headfirst[…]

Andre Campra: Messa da Requiem

Andre Campra: Messa da Requiem Featuring Philippe Herreweghe (Conductor) Harmoia Mundi, 1992 Campra wrote this masterpiece around 1699, before he abandoned his duties as maître de musique at the cathedral Notre Dame for the stage. It was considered the greatest Messe De Requiem along with Jean Gilles’ (1668-1705) work in the eighteenth century and used[…]

Mud

Most of my family is only at our “home” during the Christmas holidays. Because our time there is short, generally spanning between American Thanksgiving and New Years, my dad likes to plan enormous projects that cannot possibly be completed in the time allowed. The result is like something out of Star Trek, when Captain Kirk[…]

Wanderings

from Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1810, 1820, and 1824. With Original Instructions for the perfect preservation of Birds, Etc. for Cabinets of Natural History Note: Charles Waterton was a ninth descendant of St. Thomas More. He was born in 1782, and established[…]

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