Wednesday, December 10, 2025

First Sunday: The Hope and Joy of Lent

‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him’ (Mt. 4:11). On Ash Wednesday we began the observance of the holy season of Lent with...

On Carney’s Capitulation

(To clarify, Catholic Insight is not a 'political' magazine, even if I have some hesitation in making too hermetically-sealed categories. There is a right,...

Why We Are Catholics

Why I Am a Catholic (1932) is a collection of essays by Hilaire Belloc, Archbishop Alban Goodier, Ronald Knox, C.C. Martindale and novelist Sheila...

What Does the Church Believe? : The Catechism of the Catholic Church

(This archived address by Cardinal Ratzinger, forwarded by Father Callam, fits in well with our preparations for Advent on this memorial of Pope Damasus....

Reading St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans

  The letter of St. Paul to the Romans uses the same basic structure found in his other letters. It features one important aspect of...

The True Meaning of Poverty: Twenty Eighth Sunday

‘How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God’ (Mk. 10:24). As with many of Our Lord’s sayings,...
The winged Lion of St Mark Statue at St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy.

Mark’s Gospel is True History

The four canonical Gospels are without question the four most important books ever written. These books give us an inerrant portrait of Jesus Christ,...

Saint Isidore the Farmer and Rerum Novarum

Saint Isidore, or, in his native Spanish, Isidro de Merlo y Quintana, was named after the other Saint Isidore, the bishop of Seville (whom...

Parents Take Note: Recent FDA Ruling Means Minors Will be Able to Pick up...

(Even in Canada, ahead of the curve into the descent into amorality in so many other ways, you at least still need a prescription...

Stomping on the Devil’s Toe

The Catechism of the Catholic Church declares that the devil is not only real, but most certainly is not just some blind impersonal force...