Catholic Insight

This brief motet - if one may term it so - has a renaissance feel to it, but is from the 1989 film, Henry V, whose director and lead role was Kenneth Branagh, and...

Claude is a hungry beast. No, not someone's croissant-and-cheese devouring boyfriend - well, let us rephrase that, for he might be, given modern people's artificial romantic proclivities. Rather, Claude is the 'personification' of Anthropic...

(Here in Canada, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque and Saint Hedwig - normally celebrated on the 16th - are moved to October 20th, to make room on the 16th for the first Canadian-born saint, Marguerite...

On a different note for today's musical selection, we offer the voice of Eva Cassidy (1963 - 1996), who lived and performed in her native Washington, DC area in relative obscurity, dying young from...

A priest friend sent along the following archival video of the beatification of today's saint, Marguerite d'Youville, back in 1959, by Pope Saint John XXIII. It's in French, but even if you don't get...

(From the Vatican webpage) MARGUERITE d'YOUVILLE, the first native Canadian to be elevated to sainthood, was born October 15, 1701 at Varennes, Quebec. She was the eldest of six children born to Christophe Dufrost de...

Nada te turbe is a poem, also a prayer, composed by the great mystic and doctor Saint Teresa of Avila. 'Let nothing disturb you' is fitting for our turbulent times. When we pray at...

One of the newest saints in the calendar, canonized by Pope Leo XIV on September 7th, 2025, is Carlo Acutis. He died at 15 of leukemia on this October 12th in 2006, the day...