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
There is an election looming in the province of Ontario, Canada where Catholic Insight is located, with its rolling bucolic farms in the south, and the vast wilderness of the north, with most of the 14 million souls residing in the urban Ottawa-Toronto-Windsor corridor. It is good to see two new options on the scene,[…]
Palestrina’s Viri Galilaei, the text taken from the antiphon from second Vespers of the Ascension, was first published in 1569, recounts the joyful wonder of the Apostles as they witnessed their Lord ascend bodily into heaven, whence He shall return again, at an hour willed by the Father.
When was the Church founded? Many would say that it emerged from the opened side of Jesus on the cross, like a new Eve from the new Adam. Others point to Pentecost when, with Peter’s great sermon, the Church began its mission of evangelization.[1] No one to my knowledge has suggested the Ascension, but Luke’s[…]
The End of the Modern World, a 1956 book by Italian-German priest and theologian, Romano Guardini, is not an easy or facile read. That is not to say that Father Guardini does not write well and clearly; he is superb. But what he says is deep, rich, sombre and even dire. It is not an[…]
Have you ever wondered about the identity of that mysterious figure in the book of Genesis named Melchizedek, the King of Salem who offers a sacrifice of bread and wine for Abraham after his successful rescue of his nephew Lot from his captors?[1] Or have you ever wondered about the significance of Psalm 110:4, where[…]
Saturday, May 21st, is the feast day of Blessed Franz Jägerstätter – the anniversary of his baptism – and it would benefit us to ponder the life of this great Austrian (and of whom a recent film was made). Franz Jägerstätter was born on the 20th of May 1907, in the Upper Austrian region, in[…]
Sitting in an Essay Writing class in my first year at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, I heard these words of Joseph Razinger for the first time: …the arrow of nostalgia pierces man, wounds him and in this way gives him wings, lifts him upwards towards the transcendent…it is the Bridegroom who has smitten[…]
To suffer in love is the greatest of all joys.[1] Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds… [2] What is it about the saints that enables them to suffer so joyfully? Most of us do everything we can to avoid suffering. We dread it, worry endlessly about[…]
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me. Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of[…]
It was on this day, Mary 12th 1866, at Herzegovina, close to the Kotor Gulf, in Herceg Novi, or Castelnuovo in Dalmatia on the Adriatic sea when Bogdan (Adeodato) was born. The youngest child from twelve children, he was the Benjamin of the family. Bogdan was baptised on June 13, feast of St Anthony of[…]
