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
What is one to say of yesterday’s events on Capitol Hill? Certainly, sides, already divided, are being drawn in more than the sand, and may soon be chiseled into the very hearts of men. It is difficult to see with anti-Trumpers such Dreher and French that the president incited his supporters to riot. Yes, some[…]
Listen and wonder. Our Lady of Fatima’s warning about Communism spreading its errors around the world seems too close to home – We can only hope that the final hope of Bishop Sheen comes true. Dostoyevsky said that beauty would save the world, but perhaps Russia will ironically have a hand in this as well.
It was somewhat disconcerting to discover that the 1992 novel The Children of Men by mystery writer P.D. James was set in January of 2021, which seemed a long time in the future even a few years ago. The opening paragraph begins on New Year’s Day of that year, which, in the Catholic liturgy, is[…]
By one of those ironies of history, this January 3rd, which happens to be Epiphany here in Canada, marks the anniversary of the decrees of excommunication against the former-monk Martin Luther, by Pope Leo X in 1521, and against the sometime-Catholic Fidel Castro by Pope John XXIII in 1962. Luther publicly burned the papal letter[…]
A question for all of us, those who may see the vaccine as the prophylactic panacea to bring us back to peace and normality, all the way across that spectrum and widening divide separating many of us, to those adamant that they will never take the hastily approved conspiratorial concoction, come hell or high water.[…]
A blessed Christmas Eve’s Eve to all our readers! The joy and longing are almost fulfilled – Domnius prope est, as the invitatory antiphon for these days has it, the Lord is near, and we must be prepared, lamps lit and loins girded, to meet Him. Speaking of girded and ungirded loins, Carlo Lancelotti has[…]
As we being our proximate preparation for Christmas, with the novena of the O Antiphons, and, if you are so inclined, the meditations of Saint Alphonsus as recommended by Father Attard, you may be intrigued that this year, Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest planets in our harmonious solar system, will align for the first[…]
One of the missions of Catholic Insight is to reinvigorate our liturgical and liminal life – we should always be living on the ‘threshold’ of eternity, and the way to do that – or the Way – is to live a life immersed in liturgy, which means, in fellowship and grace with Christ, His Blessed[…]
A reader, in response to my recent and all-too-brief musings on Dr. Theresa Tam, vaccines, masks, lockdowns and such, wrote the following: That was on (sic) of the most incoherent rants that I have ever read. A public health officer is tasked to address health issues and if people are having oral sex and there[…]
I chanced upon a slim volume this year, by an author whom I greatly admire, Thomist philosopher Josef Pieper. In the midst of what seems a rather ‘hopeless’ year – from one perspective – I read his Hope and History which, as the title promised, provided some buoyance from that all-too-neglected and misunderstood virtue, the[…]
