Friday, November 7, 2025

Catholic Insight

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Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's...

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. (G.K. Chesterton)

Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor – On Guitar

I wouldn't have thought it could be done, but for our musical selection this Sunday - after a respite from these - here is...

arkness yields before the coming of the light, and grace exchanges legalism for freedom. But midway between the two stands today’s mystery, at the...

The Deleterious Ecclesial Effects of Markan Priorism

Here is some food for thought, from Catholic author Jerome D. Gilmartin, on the deleterious effect of the 'Markan priorist' hypothesis - that Mark...

Eunuchs for the Kingdom and the Three ‘C’s’ of Sexuality

I have an article out in Catholic World Report on what Christ might mean by becoming 'eunuchs for the kingdom', which at first hearing...

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. (Saint Teresa of Calcutta, +1997)

To the teacher who informed her that there was no saint bearing her name: "Very well, I will be a saint.  I will provide...

Have confidence in the compassion of our Creator. Reflect well on what you are now doing, and keep before you the things you have...

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. (G.K. Chesterton)