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The Forty Martyrs of England, Wales and Scotland

Catholic Insight - October 25, 2019

On this day in 1970, Pope Saint Paul VI officially canonized the ‘forty martyrs of England and Wales’ and, we might add, Scotland, priests,...

Catholic Insight - October 24, 2019

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

Catholic Insight - October 23, 2019

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

Catholic Insight - October 21, 2019

(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

Catholic Insight - October 20, 2019

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...

Catholic Insight - October 20, 2019

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

Catholic Insight - October 19, 2019

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

Catholic Insight - October 18, 2019

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

Catholic Insight - October 17, 2019

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

Catholic Insight - October 17, 2019

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