The Danger of Therapy Without the Cross
As a psychology graduate, I do not dismiss the benefits of this discipline, along with psychotherapy, which can help us understand behaviour, wounds, fear, grief, family patterns, and suffering. But something changes when psychology stops being a tool and becomes a worldview. One of the great temptations of our age is the belief that therapeutic language alone can tell us who we are, what is wrong with us, and how we are to be healed.
Faith and Frying Pans: What My School Gave Me that My Parish Didn’t
Editor's Note: Church, State, and Education The history of Canada's formation and endurance as a nation-state is a unique and engaging blend of national, religious, linguistic,...
Living in Wonder
Years ago I decided to take a course on Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, I know, very mainstream. As I sat in a small...
The Feast of the Annunciation: God’s Invitation
In the quiet village of Nazareth, far removed from centers of power and influence, a young woman named Mary was living what seemed to...
Cody Lambert, a ’90s Sitcom Hero, and the Catholic Moral Imagination
Over the past few months, I have found myself scrolling through Facebook Reels that surface fragments of 1990s television, shows like Step by Step,...
Psychedelics, Meditation, and Attention to the Mind: Sam Harris’s Recipe for a Post-Biblical Consciousness
Sam Harris, on his latest tour, recently claimed that with a few psychedelics, his genuine instruction on how to attend to the nature of...
Canada’s Ominous Bills That Would Make Orwell Blush
Over the past decade, Canada has slid from policing words to policing thoughts. What was once the domain of dystopian fiction, such as Minority...
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,...
Que Sera, Sera Serfdom: Mark Carney and Collapse by Design
(Mark Carney's choice of cabinet members is indicative - what is old is new again - not least reinstating radical environmental activist Stephen Guilbeault....
