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Articles
The Anti-Depressant Saint
If it 'twere not the Sixth Sunday of Easter, we would celebrate today one of the most joyful and idiosyncratic of saints, Philip Neri, (+1595), the founder of the Congregation of the Oratory named...
Editor's Corner
Western Schism, Redivivus?
There is no easy solution to the present crisis in the Catholic Church, which is a crisis of faith, of doctrine, of morals and metaphysics, of soteriology and eschatology, all of which transcend Pope...
Editor's Corner
Father Jonathan Morris’ Circuitous Road
I must confess that I had never heard of Father Jonathan Morris – perhaps for the simple reason that I don’t watch television - until the story of his request to be laicized made...
Editor's Corner
Mothers and Saints
If I may be permitted a brief personal note to our Catholic Insight readers to let you all know that my dear mother, Maria Theresa Meenan (née Reilly), went to eternity this morning at...
Editor's Corner
Bernardine and the Holy Name
Saint Bernardine of Siena (+1444) was a fiery, implacable Franciscan friar, whose apostolic work was during the tumultuous first half of the 15th century, when immorality was rife, and the Church had stumbled into...
Editor's Corner
The Providential Connection Between Popes John and John Paul
Pope Saint John I (470-526) was a native of Tuscany, a Deacon for years, helping govern the Church in her temporal affairs and distribution of aid - he may have been the 'Deacon John'...
Editor's Corner
Stand up and Fight, Canada
There are two Americas, a situation not unlike circa 1860. Back then, there were those for slavery, and those against, and in 2019, there are those for abortion, and those against, or those for...
Editor's Corner
Choosing Life and Death
In a tragic parody of Moses’ exhortation to choose the way of life and the way of death, a Malaysian girl, standing atop a tall building, asked for a poll from her Instagram followers...
