Catholic Insight

Today marks the anniversary of one of the greatest victories in the history of Christendom, the defeat of the Islamic Ottoman Turks on July 22, 1456, fresh from their destruction of Constantinople three years...

A reader sent along this photo, taken yesterday over the skies of Montreal, and Saint Joseph's Oratory: We should recall that the rainbow is a sign of God's hope, love, benevolence and mercy, and it...

A friend just reminded me that today, a few days after Our Lady of Mount Carmel, is the commemoration of the great prophet Elijah, mighty as a whirlwind, on which he was taken up...

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people (G.K. Chesterton)

On this July 17th, 1870, the First Vatican Council solemnly declared the doctrine of infallibility – infallibly. The prelude to the definition was surrounded with controversy, with figures such as Cardinal Newman warning that,...

On a warm July 17, in the year 1717, King George II sailed down the Thames with a group of nobles, followed by a barge filled with musicians playing a new trio of suites...

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven. (Saint Camillus de Lellis, +1614)