Thursday, November 6, 2025

Catholic Insight

Catholic Insight
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Palestrina’s Iesu Rex Admirabilis

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...