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Sine Dominico Non Possumus

Catholic Insight - June 6, 2021

A blessed and grace-filled Solemnity of Corpus Christi! To our Canadian readers, at least, where this day is moved from its regular Thursday, recalling...

Slavery, Abortion and Denying Communion

Catholic Insight - June 6, 2021

Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it - So Randall Smith begins his must-read essay in The Catholic Thing -...

Catholic Insight - June 6, 2021

Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow...

Catholic Insight - June 5, 2021

The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but...

Lauda Sion

Catholic Insight - June 3, 2021

From Tomás Luis de Victoria, his motet in praise of the Holy Eucharist, from 1585, in an era when the Holy Sacrifice of the...

An Addendum to the Ugandan Martyrs, and King Mwanga

Catholic Insight - June 3, 2021

I was reading some of the corollary to the martyrs we celebrate today, the numerous 'pages' of King Mwanga put to death for resisting...

Catholic Insight - June 3, 2021

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us. ~ Saint Jean...

Catholic Insight - June 2, 2021

No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false. (Saint Justin Martyr, +165)

A Letter to a Local Paper

Catholic Insight - May 31, 2021

The local newspaper of the area in which I happen to live published an editorial a few weeks ago, claiming that those who have...

Two Trinitarian Palestrinas

Catholic Insight - May 30, 2021

In honour of the Most Holy Trinity, Palestrina's Veni Sancte Spiritus, for four voices, first published in 1575. https://youtu.be/J0FdXADkCzs Compare with his later (1589) Veni Creator...