Recently added articles from Catholic Insight:
Death notice of the Liberal Party.
Jun 01, 2009; ... May 14, 2009, has come and gone. I know many of you will wonder why I mention this, as you did not read anything particular about this date in your newspapers or see any particular coverage on TV. The media silence has been deafening. May 14th was the fortieth anniversary of ...
Nuns: A History of Convent Life 1450-1700.
Jun 01, 2009; ... Nuns A History of Convent Life 1450-1700 WRITTEN BY Silvia Evangelisti PUBLISHED BY Oxford University Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-1995-3205-6, Softcover, pp. 312, $19.95 CDN [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On the face of it, a survey ...
Of saints and scoundrels.(GUEST EDITORIAL)(remembering Virgin Mary and the anniversary of abortion law)(Editorial)
May 01, 2009; ... Thou art blessed and venerable, O Virgin Mary, who with purity unstained wast found to be the Mother of our Saviour. Virgin Mother of God, He whom the whole world was unable to contain enclosed Himself in thy womb, being made man. (Gradual, Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1945) ...
'Genocide Awareness Project'.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... The article by Stephanie Gray entitled: "A warning to pro-lifers: 'Genocide Awareness Project' (GAP)" (C.I. March 2009, pp. 25-27) ought to be read by everyone in the pro-life camp. It is clear, concise, but above all reality-based. In making the case that there is a strong similarity ...
'There's probably no God; now stop worrying and enjoy your life.'.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... The word "probably" would surely suggest that there is a possibility that there is, in fact, a God. There was another Brit who lived about a thousand years prior to irreverent bus advertising, named Anselm (now a saint) who proposed that if God were possible, therefore God exists, because ...
Frankfurt School.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... I would like to thank you for including Timothy Matthew's article, The Frankfurt School: Conspiracy to Corrupt, in your March edition. My eyes have been opened! Hopelessness and despair run rampant in our culture today, mostly manufactured by the music, gaming and movie ...
Frankfurt School.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... In Timothy Matthew's excellent article he states, "Unlike hard-line Marxists, the Frankfurt School did not make any plans for the future." This is not exactly true. In Congressional testimony, just after her conversion to Catholicism through the influence of Bishop Fulton Sheen, ...
March issue.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... The remarks of Michael Coren about the Bishop Williamson affair (March issue) are reprehensible, and they discredit Catholic Insight. (The feature articles about Catholic Culture are however a great credit ...) To call Bishop Williamson a "repugnant lunatic," in the ...
The cancelled Plains of Abraham battle.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... I note from the media that there is a good deal of discussion concerning a possible reenactment of the 1759 Plains of Abraham battle. Apart from calling attention to the scandal of two soidisant Christian nations, France and England, going to war at that time and killing off ...
New Sunday lectionary.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... About twenty years ago the Canadian bishops approved the NRSV (New Revised Standard Version of the Bible) for the Lectionary. In 1994 the Holy See prohibited the use of the NRSV. The Holy See permitted the English-Canadian Church to continue using the NRSV for a short period, while the ...
Conference.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... I would like to tell readers about the National Theology of the Body Conference coming to Saskatoon, Sask, from June 57, of this year. Keynote speakers are Dr. Janet Smith, Christopher West, Dr. Michael Waldstein, and Dr. Mary Martin. The Conference is being organized by One More Soul ...
Troubles in the church.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... We Catholics have needed plenty of fortitude lately as the Vatican has given the media plenty of ammunition to attack the faith. We discover that Fr. Macial Degollado, the founder of the Legion of Christ, has fathered a child with his mistress and faces accusations of being a ...
From a teacher in the Toronto District Catholic School Board.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009 ... I have a binder from a workshop at the tcdsb: Ontario Eco-schools. Eco team: Roberta Osward, Curriculum, Scott Grieve, Energy Conservation, Paul Deighan, Waste Management. Roberta and others in the same initiative have been peppering schools with emails to become "eco-schools". ...
Divorce.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... The bonds of marriage are so strong that it is important to select a future spouse not only with love, but keeping in mind that the commitment you will make is for life, and you will be calling on God as a witness to its permanence. Five of our children did not; all five were ...
Frankfurt School: On reading the article on the Frankfurt School I believe that this study should be compulsory material for all Catholic (other Christian?) colleges, universities, and high schools.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... On reading the article on the Frankfurt School I believe that this study should be compulsory material for all Catholic (other Christian?) colleges, universities, and high schools. It is an amazing article which surely took much time to compile. I notice you have it copyrighted, yet I ...
On condoms.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... All these attacks on the Holy Father are reprehensible, and remind us of someone else who over 2000 years ago was stalked by the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin in an attempt to catch Him out. Finally they crucified Him. The Africans themselves recognize that the Pope is fully aware of the ...
Polygamy: does the Supreme Court have its limits?
May 01, 2009; ... Legal feminists are hard at work spreading the idea among fellow atheists that polygamy cannot be prohibited in order to protect women, and that being so, it should no longer be proscribed. In the Globe of April 6, 2009, Susan Drummond, who teaches family law at Toronto's Osgoode Hall Law ...
Pope Benedict and the condom hysteria.(THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD)(Interview)
May 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By the Editor "The world ... hates me because I testify of it that its ...
Why the Pope is right.(THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD)(Pope Benedict XVI on condoms and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases)
May 01, 2009; ... The outrage over Pope Benedict's comment is, in large part, due to an atheistic world's moral relativism and commitment to hedonism. In a world that lives by the rule, 'If it feels good, do it', it is indeed ironic that the medical profession seems to regard promiscuous sexual activity, ...
Atheism: a threat to civilization.(THE CHURCH IN THE WORD)(Column)
May 01, 2009 ... By the Editor Atheism's common form in Canada is secularism. As we have pointed out many times in the past, modern secularism is not neutral; on the contrary, it is aggressively anti-Christian. While they use the term humanism, there is nothing "humanistic" about atheism. Lenin, ...