Saint Monica, the Magnificent Mother
Today, the entire Church celebrates the beautiful memorial of St Monica, the Mother of St Augustine. Since, a mother can often be best described...
Pope Francis and the Assumption
(Many readers of Catholic Insight likely have some, shall we say, issues with Pope Francis, and his actions of late - his ambiguous if...
Imagining Corona
Napoleon once quipped that men live by imagination – by which, we may surmise, he meant that they live more in the future than...
Chlorine and Conscience
In an ironic twist on this ‘Earth Day’, this also marks the 105th anniversary of the first use of chemical weapons in warfare –...
My Dinner With André, the Conspiracy Theorist
I never saw the film, which came out in 1981, but someone sent me clip, which is oddly, even ominously, prescient - so much...
Easter Joy, Lockdown Loops, and Casting Out Fear
A continued blessed and joyous Easter to all our readers, on this second day of eight days of solemnities, each day an 'Easter Sunday'...
Scotus Unravels the Social Order Yet Further
In 1964, the United States passed the Civil Rights Act, which forbade unjust discrimination based on ‘race, color, religion, sex or national origin’. Today,...
Warsaw Bans the Cross
The secularization of Poland continues apace: The mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, has now banned any public display of crosses (and any other 'religious...
Novena to Saint Joseph!
As the saying goes, Ite ad Joseph! - Go to Joseph, and today marks the beginning of the novena to the Protector and Defender...
Saint Simon Stock and the Scapular
Saint Simon Stock (1165-1265) was an English Carmelite, who helped establish the ancient contemplative Order in England and Italy, founding monasteries in Cambridge, Oxford,...
