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Saint Kateri , Canada’s Protectress
This was the title given to Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, by Pope Benedict XVI, when he canonized her on October 28th, 2012, along with six...
Remembering Father Alphonse de Valk
(Today marks the sixth anniversary of the death of Father Alphonse de Valk, C.S.B., a faithful, courageous and indefatigable Basilian priest, pro-life-and-family apostle, and...
My Name is Bernadette
April 16th is a propitious day, for besides the anniversary of Father de Valk's death, who founded Catholic Insight in its print form decades...
Divine Mercy Sunday – An Echo of Every Mass
Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believeāā¦Ā āMy Lord and my God!ā (Jn. 20:18)).
Today is Divine...
Editor's Corner
Blessed Marie-Anne Blondin: Educator and Martyr of Silence
Bd. Marie-Anne Blondin (+1890), whose optional memorial falls today in our fair Dominion, the day of her birth in 1809, five decades before Canada...
Carney’s Amoral Majority
After five defections ā euphemistically described as ācrossing the floorā ā and three by-elections, Mark Carney and his Liberals how have their coveted majority....
A Tale of Two Benedicts
A grace-filled Holy Week to all our readers! As we await and prepare for the Resurrection about to dawn upon us, we might keep...
Weekly Feature
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces... never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. That's the beauty of being alive... We can always start all over again. Enjoy God's amazing opportunities bestowed on us. Have faith in Him always. (Saint Bernadette Soubirous, +1879)
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NOTA IN BREVIS
A Closed, Unsustainable, Descending Loop
As a follow-up to my thoughts on Payette's payout, here be a stark image of where are here in Canada.
As the graph shows in, well, graphic terms, since 2025, the public sector has contributed to 95.5% of economic growth. The private sector - which funds the public sector, or...
Presidential Pardon of Weronika Krawczyk
As a good news, follow-up to our story from Poland, of the persecution of Weronika Krawczyk for her pro-life views, we heard that she has been granted a presidential pardon.
One might still wonder why one needs a presidential pardon for simply holding the long-held belief that the child within...
Pope Leo and a Rosary for Peace
Pope Leo XIV has asked Catholics across the world to join him in a Rosary for peace today, at 18:00 Rome time (6 pm), which would be noon from where I write (EST). If you are able, whether at that time or another, and in whatever way you pray,...
Lent
Good Friday and Suffering
Evil and pain is always a mystery, that whole mysterium iniquitatis, of which Saint Paul writes (2 Thess 2:7). In 1984, Pope Saint John...
Your Easter Prayer
Happy Easter Lord Jesus Christ.
It's Easter day and we smile
In the Lord's in gentle light and
His tomb is bare the stone is rolled
A story...
An Ancient Homily for Holy Saturday
The time between Good Friday and Easter Sunday is one of waiting, in silence, as the world wonders - anticipates - what will happen,...
In the Glorious Light of Easter, Alleluia!
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden...
Pope Benedict’s Last Holy Thursday Homily
MASS OF THE LORD'S SUPPER
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
Basilica of St John Lateran
Holy Thursday, 5 April 2012
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Dear Brothers and Sisters!
Holy Thursday is...
Pope Saint John Paul II’s Last Passion Sunday
(This is the last of Pope Saint John Paul II's Passion-Palm Sunday homilies, given in 2004, before his own passion and death the following...
I Am the Resurrection and the Life: Fifth Sunday and Passiontide
āI am the resurrection and the lifeā¦Do you believe thisā? (Jn. 11:25-26).
The fifth Sunday in Lent marks the beginning of Passiontide. We will now...
Fourth Sunday of Lent: Siloam and Spiritual Blindness
Once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light ā for the fruit of the light...
Third Sunday of Lent: Thirsting for the True Water of Life
āGive me a drinkā (Jn. 4:7).
The conversation of Our Lord and the Samaritan woman revolves around the gift of water. This request is presented...
Second Sunday of Lent, and Seeing Beyond Our Eyes
Are old people wise? Have they learned anything from experience? Or are they all curmudgeons, continually grumbling about the young generation and contrasting it...
First Sunday of Lent: Purified and Perfected by Penance
After Jesus was baptized, the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by
Satan (Mk. 1:12).
On...
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A Pilgrimage from Vienna to Rome
I decided to make a pilgrimage to Rome, prompted by the Jubilee year, and walking through the Holy Doors. But I couldnāt just show up in Rome, so to make a pilgrimage of it.
Apologetics 101
Apologetics is the art of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse, making reference to both faith and reason as appropriate, in light of Saint Peterās admonition to āAlways be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverenceā (1 Peter 3:15).
