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
I have an article published in Catholic World Report on the vocation of singlehood – if we may term it so – in response to Mary Cuff’s article in Crisis earlier in August, whose provocative title is ‘There is no vocation to the single life’. Hmm. That all depends on what one means. Are some[…]
One day I was out walking. I was walking among many other people. There were people all around me. We walked all in the same direction. Then I noticed that there were men and women with faces completely covered, dressed all in black. It was as if they were herding all of us towards what[…]
(Letters to the Editor do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Catholic Insight, but are meant to prompt discussion and dialogue, in good Socratic and Christian spirit). Paula Ducepec in her article ” Speaking out: Wearing a mask shows you care” ( August 26/2020 – Catholic Register) describes with youthful idealism her views on this[…]
The saying goes that politics is a mugs’ game, the art of the possible and the practical and all that, and we must take what we can get – the crumbs off the master’s table, so to speak. Perhaps there be some truth in this, but it’s sort of looking at things backwards. To paraphrase[…]
Mask Mania, militaristically mandated, continues, almost unabated, the talisman of the age, the sign of do-gooder-ism – no, not a pro-life t-shirt, or even any of those AIDS and other causes-ribbons that were the vogue up until not that long ago. No, it’s masking up. We should be thankful that here in Canada we have[…]
Cardinal Zen has it right on Vatican II – it is a light for our times, read rightly, in accord with tradition and the hermeneutic of continuity. I wonder what those who want to get rid of the Council, or at least sections thereof, realize what the effect of that may be. Like Voltaire, but[…]
In the early morning hours of July 30th, 1945 – fifteen minutes after midnight, to be precise – in the last days of the World War, an American aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Indianapolis, was struck by a torpedo from a Japanese submarine. Germany had already having surrendered the previous April, but the Asian theatre of[…]
While we commemorate Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a few other anniversaries on this historically significant day, which are all sort of providentially linked to Carmel and Our Lady in some way: In 622, the Muslims count the beginning of their own calendar, really their own history, (hence it is year ‘zero’ for them), when[…]
