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Catholic Insight - October 16, 2019

All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together, happily united (Saint Marguerite D'Youville, +1771)

Four Saints in One

Catholic Insight - October 16, 2019

We celebrate a veritable panoply of saints today: In Canada, we have the memorial of Saint Marguerite D’Youville (+1771), a lovely French Canadian mademoiselle,...

Catholic Insight - October 15, 2019

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that (Saint Theresa of Avila, +1582)

A Time to Give Thanks, and a Time to Vote

Catholic Insight - October 14, 2019

A blessed and joyous Thanksgiving to all our readers, a greeting which we would have offered earlier, but some technical glitches got in the...

Catholic Insight - October 12, 2019

In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear. (Saint Therese of Lisieux)

Catholic Insight - October 11, 2019

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age (Pope Saint John XXIII)

Catholic Insight - October 10, 2019

Faith is an act of the intellect, assenting to the divine truth, by command of the will, moved by God through grace (Saint Thomas...

A Danse Macabre of a Debate

Catholic Insight - October 10, 2019

Concerning the other night’s ‘debate’, allow me to offer the following enthymeme, a sort of summarized syllogism described by Aristotle: When a society loses faith,...

Denis, Leonardi and Newman

Catholic Insight - October 9, 2019

We have two saints on the universal calendar today, and one blessed yet to be put thereon, who will be canonized this Sunday. In historical...

Catholic Insight - October 9, 2019

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe (Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, +1890)