Quotes

Catholic Insight - July 27, 2020

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerors (Hilaire Belloc, who was born on this day 150 years ago)

Catholic Insight - July 23, 2020

The source of justice is not vengeance but charity. (Saint Bridget of Sweden, +1373)

Catholic Insight - July 22, 2020

Burning with the fire of love, she longed for him who she thought had been taken away. And so it happened that the woman...

Catholic Insight - July 21, 2020

For the word of God is light to the mind and fire to the will, enabling man to know and to love God. To...

Catholic Insight - July 19, 2020

Just as there are two coinages, one of God and the other of the world, each with its own image, so unbelievers bear the...

Catholic Insight - July 18, 2020

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth -...

Catholic Insight - July 16, 2020

Take, beloved son this scapular of thy order as a badge of my confraternity and for thee and all Carmelites a special sign of grace;...

Catholic Insight - July 13, 2020

After the most blessed servant of God had been anointed king, he was not satisfied with the anxieties of his realm; so, in order...

Catholic Insight - July 11, 2020

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in...

Catholic Insight - July 8, 2020

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature, which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world...