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Catholic Insight - November 10, 2023

Teach nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught... Preach...

Matthew Perry, A Troubled Friend

Catholic Insight - November 8, 2023

Matthew Perry died last week at the age of 54, found drowned in his hot tub by his assistant (which made me wonder whether...

Catholic Insight - November 7, 2023

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future (Oscar Wilde)

Dr. Richard Shaw – Talk in Ottawa this Friday

Catholic Insight - November 7, 2023

For those readers in the Ottawa region - Canada's capital! - there is a talk this Friday, November 10th, by Dr. Richard Shaw, a...

Sunday Musical Offering: The Time for Flowers, and Mozart’s 36th Masterpiece

Catholic Insight - November 5, 2023

A friend just sent along this poignant ballad, and as I wrote in reply, in gist, that I enjoy pretty much anything with a...

Catholic Insight - November 5, 2023

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. (G.K. Chesterton)

Catholic Insight - November 3, 2023

Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer, if it were offered to God (Saint...

Catholic Insight - November 2, 2023

For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for...

A Saintly Major-General

Catholic Insight - November 1, 2023

It is impressive, fitting for this Solemnity - and a quasi-litany as a bonus: https://youtu.be/Fnt-P38ykc4

Palestrina’s Iesu Rex Admirabilis

Catholic Insight - October 29, 2023

The feast of Christ the King (in the usus antiquior) was put in place on this last Sunday of October to counteract so-called Reformation...