Catholic Insight

Signs can be ambiguous, or they can be very certain. There are the 'signs' of the sacraments fall into the latter category, given to us to ensure we are given grace, in its various...

In one of those odd confluences of history, today marks the day in 1793 when the Committee of Public Safety - a modern ring, that - was formed during the French Revolution, under Robespierre....

I was never a big fan of the Harry Potter books, for various reasons. I tried to read one - I was not their target audience, in age or proclivity - and just could...

Saint Richard of Chichester (+1253) was a mediaeval bishop in Sussex - now the patron saint of that bucolic region in the south of England, whence hailed Hilaire Belloc. I'm not sure if he...

Our parish priest reminded us this morning that by statutory law in Canada, today is officially 'John Paul II Day'. I must confess that I did not know, and somehow missed, that back on...

(Last words are always - or almost always - indicative, and one could reach much into these words of Pope Benedict XVI on his last Easter Vigil as Pope. The light cannot be extinguished,...

Popule Meus, by Tomas Luis de Victoria, Christ's lament from the Cross, 'My People, what have I done to you, or in how have I offended you? Answer me!' https://youtu.be/bH8t5BKI7Qg The Reproaches, also by Victoria, who wrote...

Here we go, with another 'leap' in the A.I. revolution, digital copies being made of products, factories, towns, villages, animals and, ambitiously, of ourselves, our organs, even the entire universe: https://www.noemamag.com/a-digital-twin-might-just-save-your-life/ I'm not sure about digital...