Catholic Insight

Just a brief reminder to our readers that this is the eighth anniversary of the election of Pope Francis, as the 266th successor Saint Peter - yes, 'tis difficult to grasp how tempus fugit....

Some Saints are privileged to extend to us their patronage with particular efficacy in certain needs, but not in others; but our holy patron St. Joseph has the power to assist us in all...

On the head of religion alone I am condemned, and for that I would willingly and joyfully pour forth even a hundred lives. Snatch away that one which I have from me, and make...

Yes, I know it may be pro forma, but we should do our own due diligence, by writing to our Members of Parliament - or all of them - to protest the expansion of...

A married woman must, when called upon, quit her devotions to God at the altar to find him in her household affairs (Saint Frances of Rome, +1440)

Lord, Your thorns are my roses and Your suffering my paradise. (Saint John of God,+1550)

A reader wrote in recently: As a companion to the biography of Robert Southwell, another little book nicely rounds out the philosophical underpinnings of that period, called The Elizabethan World Picture, by EMW Tillyard. In it,...

If the physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether a life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state. (Dr....