Catholic Insight

Saint Agnes of Montepulciano (+1317) is one of the 'incorruptibles'. She was born in the picturesque cliff-top Italian city on January 28th, 1268, the same day as her fellow Dominican, Thomas Aquinas (whose birth...

Two saints are commemorated on this 19th of April, both of the Middle Ages: Saint Ælfheah of Canterbury, more commonly known as 'Alphege', was born in 953 outside of Bath in southern England. In youth,...

G.K. Chesterton quipped once, if memory serves, that each man, with some diligent and faithful hard work, should be able to afford 'three acres and a cow', to provide for his family in a...

One more note on this April 16th, which also marks the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden in 1746, when the Scottish regiments, in support of Charles Stuart, were decisively defeated by the English....

Most people lie. At least, so it seems, according to a recent podcast by Terry O'Reilly's Under the Influence, which, unlike many shows Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC, speaks a lot of truth, I...

The original Gregorian chant of the traditional Easter sequence, Victimae paschali laudes, which goes back to the 11th century, perhaps to Wipo of Burgundy, but also attributed to others. As someone wrote, the best...

Call me a sentimentalist, but it's one of my favourite short stories, evoking an Ireland that no longer is, but may be again: https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/walshm-quietman/walshm-quietman-00-h.html The 1952 film version of The Quiet Man, with John Wayne and...

Monsignor Antonio Vivaldi was not only one of the greatest of Baroque composers, but also a Catholic priest, who directed a girls' orphanage, for whose residents he wrote much of his music - for...