Catholic Insight

On this day in 1846, astronomer William Hessel discovered Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, just 17 days after Johann Galle discovered the gas giant itself. Rather an impressive feat, for home-built...

Feckless: Lacking purpose; without skill, ineffective, incompetent; lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way. As another hurricane hurtles towards Florida - possibly a catastrophic Category-5, and this after the destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene...

The Holy Father and the Patriarch of Jerusalem have called for a day of prayer and fasting on this upcoming Monday, October 7th, the memorial of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary. That...

Besides being the memorial of Saint Faustina Kowalska, on October 5th is also the commemoration of Blessed Bartolmeo Longo (1841 - 1926). Fitting, since 'Blessed Bartolo's life signifies more than many the infinite divine...

On Saturday, October 5, 2024, the Global Men’s Rosary Crusade gathers in Toronto. This is the third year that faithful Canadian Catholic men will pray fifteen decades of the Holy Rosary in public at...

Michaelmas of 1724 - the 29th of September, now the feast of all the Archangels - saw the first performance of J.S. Bach's cantata, Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, (Lord God, we all...

Hermanus of Reinchenau (1013 – 1054) called ‘Contractus’ due to the deformity purportedly caused by spina bifida and a cleft palate (as well as suffering from cystic fibrosis) – was a remarkable figure in...

All I can say is, amen. With their added freedom of choice, and funding, for educational choices, from homeschooling to private academies, we can only hope, even against hope, that that the rest of...