Catholic Insight

For those in the Peterborough area, or even further afield, mark your calendars for a new and original musical, Past the Limit, a Story of Life, Loss and Hope. Performances are at the Peterborough...

On this August 7th, back in 1962, Frances Oldham Kelsey, a Canadian-American physician/pharmacologist (who hailed from bucolic and beautiful Cobble Hill, on Vancouver Island, in which area I have spent some very pleasant time...

Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is hosting its annual Wojtyla Summer Conference from the 7th- 10th of August. The theme this year is the Seven Liberal Arts: Ordering the Soul.  The weekend has talks,...

It's just been announced that the Oratorian, Saint John Henry Newman will be declared a Doctor of the Church, making him the 38th with that illustrious title. This is good news. Newman was, if anything,...

On this July 27th, in 1890, Vincent van Gogh - who suffered from mental illness for much of his life - shot himself in the chest. He survived, but would die two days later...

Saint Pantaleon (+305) was a very popular early martyr, even though little is known about his life. The martyrology has it that he was a Christian, but strayed from his faith, and studied medicine...

Sir Edward Bairstow (1874 - 1946) was an Anglican organist and composer, who wrote mainly for the church. Our schola learned this polyphonic rendition of the ancient hymn, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence,...

A young Karol Wojtyla, while discerning his vocation as he matured in his hometown of Wadowice, thought of becoming a Carmelite, drawn to their contemplative life and deep spirituality, prayer, devotion to Our Lady,...