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

Airing Things Out in the Fresh Light of Truth, and Rightly Ordered Resistance

A reader wrote the following in response to Father Testa’s article on Canceling Conservative Priests: Ah, but is it the whole truth? For confidentiality reasons an ‘employer’ in a large organization does not release details of disciplinary disputes beyond the employee and representative, but the employee may choose share with colleagues his version, perhaps an[…]

Flagrant Flowers, Variants and the Tragedy of A Suicide

Is anyone else not surprised? The United States Supreme Court – stacked with six purportedly conservative appointees – recently refused to hear the case of Baronnelle Stutzman, a Washington, D.C. florist who in turn refused to make a make a flower arrangement with a pro-homosexual-wedding message. This seems a classic free-speech issue that needs desperately[…]

Historical and Present Perspective

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, said George Santanyana in a speech before the House of Commons in Britain, in 1948, following Cicero’s quip that to be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. The gist of either is the sub-text of Douglas Farrow’s insightful take on the[…]

Father Marco Responds

A reader, ‘T’, wrote the following in reply to Father Testa’s article on Canceling Conservative Priests, and I thought this required a response outside of the comments section: Am saddened by such violent references on a Catholic site, and by a Catholic priest (drive by shooting, totalitarian regime …war of annihilation against perceived enemies, Church[…]

Outlawing Conversion, Censorship and the Price of Whiskey

The wayward Liberals continue their dismantling of Canada: After just killing the proposed bill that would have prohibited at least gender-selective abortion, they just passed third reading of their threatened law prohibiting ‘conversion therapy’ for minors. Anyone eighteen and under who suffers from gender dysphoria, SSA and other spiritual and psychological ills must be left[…]

Rehabilitating Nero?

I’m not surprised the day has arrived, that historians are now rehabilitating – so to speak – the reputation of the diabolical monstrosities of Emperor Nero, with a fawning display at the British Museum: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/how-nasty-was-nero-really How bad was Nero, really? Well, it depends on whom you trust, and almost all the contemporary sources, secular and[…]

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