Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Catholic Insight

Catholic Insight
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Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.  (Anthony Mary Claret, +1870)

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. (Saint Francis of Assisi)

(I)f there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power....

Sunday, and Pre-Election Thoughts

A blessed and glorious Sunday to all our readers... Today's Gospel speaks of Christ's 'elect' - that is, His chosen, which in the end means...

Enlarge your desires, do not bear the yoke with unbelievers. The deeper our faith, the stronger our hope, the greater our desire, the larger...

if a man is united inwardly with the Son of the living God, he also bears his likeness outwardly by his continual practice of...

Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things which have been accomplished among us, just as they were delivered to...

Darkness and Pronouns

And thick darkness shall cover the land...The widespread blackouts in Manitoba and California - regions which otherwise share almost nothing else in common -...

Ignatius’ Bread and Canada’s Weed

Saint Ignatius of Antioch (+107) joyfully 'went to the lions', as the saying goes, meeting his martyrdom in the Coliseum, perhaps less than a...

I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not...