Scheer Wins
Andrew Scheer has won the election as leader of the federal Conservative Party, thankfully and rather surprisingly narrowly edging out front-runner Maxime Bernier, who...
From Merrie Ireland to Bonnie Scotland: Saint Columbkille
If you will forgive a little parochialism, today is the feast of Saint Columbkille (521-597), also called Columba, who is not celebrated in the...
Ben Nevis
When one first arrives in Scotland, everything seems a wee bit, well, smaller or, as they might put it, ‘wee-er’. The streets are narrow,...
The Ballad of the White Horse
“Mother of God,” the wanderer said,
“I am but a common king,
Nor will I ask what saints may ask,
To see a secret thing.”
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“When our last...
Will a Real Women’s Day Please Stand Up?
I am all for honouring women, but International Women’s Day – which I am at least glad to read they have not (yet?) modified...
9 11 and Historical Memory
It is difficult to believe that it was a full eighteen years ago I first heard of the attack – initially reported as a...
Sample’s Quiet Revolution
Liturgical music. The phrase may instil a faint feeling of nausea in those even remotely attuned to true beauty, as the strains of treacly...
A Philosophical Habit of Mind
On a more positive note on how universities may best fulfill what they were originally founded to do, please do feel free to peruse...
Angels Guardian
This memorial of the Guardian Angels goes back to the year 1500, the very dawn of the Protestant ‘Reformation’, seventeen years before Luther would pin...
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...