Catholic Insight

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

Catholic Insight

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

Nota in Brevis

Whiskey in the Ruins

This first day of June, is apparently is the anniversary of the invention of Scotch whiskey – Gaelic for aqua vitae – the water of life – which is what the Tironesian monk John Cor at Lindores Abbey outside of Fife first called the distilled malt liquor he had concocted in 1495. As the Latin[…]

Ascension and Novena to the Holy Ghost – First Day

In the Church universal, the solemnity of Ascension is on its traditional day, Thursday – so a blessed, if belated, and joyous one to all our readers – commemorating Our Lord’s return to heaven, whence He shall return at the end of time. The ‘nine days’ from here to Pentecost signifies the very first ‘novena’[…]

Euthanasia in Britain, Canada Style

It’s disconcerting when a former colony – Canada – deforms her mother country – Britain, like a son corrupting his father. As England debates legalizing state-sanctioned murder-suicide – euphemistically known as euthanasia, or ‘MAiD’ here – she should take stock of what has happened here in her Dominion: The official count is over 60,000 killed.[…]

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