Catholic Insight
Music for Mary
On this Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, as we continue the pilgrimage through the Marian theme of Advent, here are a few musical pieces...
Five Fun Facts About Saint Nicholas
As part of today's celebration of a great saint, here are some factoids that did not make into my own reflection on Saint Nicholas...
Dom Alcuin Reid, and Sacrosanctum at Sixty
December 4th, 2023 marks the 60th birthday of Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Constitution on the Liturgy from the Second Vatican Council, and Dom Alcuin Reid...
Evelyn Waugh’s Edmund Campion
Five years after his conversion to Catholicism in 1930, English author Evelyn Waugh set his considerable literary talents - he has been described as...
Feast of All the Franciscan Saints
November 29th is the traditional day on which are celebrated all the Saints of the Seraphic Order. It is with every reason that today...
The DSM, Psychiatry, and Big Pharma
The DSM - the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - is the textbook, one might even call it the bible, of psychiatry and psychology. After...
Faith, Reason and Formal Objects
In 1998, 25 years ago, Pope Saint John Paul II published his encyclical, Fides et Ratio, on the relationship between faith and reason, the...
Math and the Modern World
Many students - well, let's broaden the genus, and say many former students, with haunted memories of vague equations and sine-curves and integrals -...
Hilary Hahn Plays Tschaikovsky
This is a tour de force, of one woman, her violin - Hilary Han is one of the modern greats - and an impressive...
