Catholic Insight

MP Laurel Collins, of the New Democratic Party, wants to make 'coercive control' illegal, especially, it seems, as applied to romantic 'partners', former or current. But, who knows, it could apply to anyone 'coercing'...

I serendipitously came across this article by Algis Valiunas - always worth reading - which describes what paganism was really like. Not the idealized res publica of the Renaissance and the Romantics. Rather, as...

The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked. (Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini, +1917)

There are few - some may argue none - who can match Palestrina's composition, and his ars perfecta, in full form here with his motet Sicut Cervus, based on Psalm 42, published posthumously in Venice...

In Flanders Fields BY JOHN MCCRAE In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row,     That mark our place; and in the sky     The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the...

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 nothing else than what we received from our forefathers... Accordingly,...

Matthew Perry died last week at the age of 54, found drowned in his hot tub by his assistant (which made me wonder whether all actors all have assistants at home with them) -...

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