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Music
Musical Offering: Hassler, Grieg and Our Lady
A blessed Sunday to one and all!
German composer Hans Leo Hassler was born on this October 26th in 1564, bringing much of the genius and style of Italian renaissance polyphony into his compositions. Although...
Nota in Brevis
Submarine Schadenfreude
Schadenfreude is one of those double-barreled German words that signifies more than its literal meaning. Like schweinehund - pig-dog - which brings to mind a whole panoply of images, schadenfreude - sorrow-joy - implies...
Nota in Brevis
Duc in Altum: A Perpetual Adoration Success Story
"Duc in altum" is a Latin phrase meaning "put out into the deep," originating from Jesus’ words in the Gospel of Luke 5:4. Christ commanded Simon Peter to "Put out into the deep and...
Editor's Corner
Canada Moribunda?
The title says much of what is in this grim article: Canada, old, poorer, smaller. That is, old and smaller demographically, not in the geological or geographic sense. I strive to see things as...
Nota in Brevis
Novena to the Canadian Martyrs
Here in Canada, we celebrate the feast of the Canadian Martyrs on September 26th, so the novena to them begins today. Our Dominion could certainly use their intercession, so I urge readers to join...
Editor's Corner
Saint Thomas of Villanova
This Saint Thomas (1488 - 1555), of noble Spanish lineage, and had it all, as the saying goes, taking as his 'last name' the place from which he came, Villanueva. Like Christ, although rich,...
Quotes
Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong. (Saint Hildegarde von Bingen, +1179)
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Felicitationes ad Leonem, Papam
We here at Catholic Insight would like to extend our heartiest, if a bit belated, birthday greetings to Pope Leo XIV, who turned 70 on the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross, a...
