Stories Collection

  1. Dave Durand, Time Management for Catholics, Sophia Institute Press, Manchester, NH, 2...
  2. Catholic Insight Staff On January 17, 2003, the Congregation for the Doctrine of t...
  3. As I write, this world is newly embroiled in another major war. The same world is sha...
  4. She stands atop the Continental Divide on an 8500-foot mountain, with her arms outstr...
  5. Solitude Myriam is a life-giving spiritual family of healing and hope, founded in Que...
  6. On the eve of yet another war, I want to share yet another Catholic insight. Jesus Ch...
  7. At a busy intersection between a large shopping mall and a local high school near Lin...
  8. Toronto--Ontario Education Minister Elizabeth Witmer will not soon forget her recent ...
  9. Quebec City--During the 2002 legislative session of the National Assembly in Quebec C...
  10. Couples for Christ (CFC), has a mission of Christian family renewal and global evange...
  11. Toronto -- On July 22, 2002, the St. Michael's College governing body, the Collegium,...
  12. As I put the final touches to this editorial, portraits of Saddam Hussein are being s...
  13. Ottawa -- Despite Jean Chretien's famous claim that in Canada there is "social peace,...
  14. Vancouver--Following the December 2002 Supreme Court decision in the Surrey, B.C. sch...
  15. Thank you for reporting on Fr. DeSouza's inaccurate and misleading comments concernin...
  16. Ottawa -- The executive of the Catholic Women's League of Canada, with a reported mem...
  17. As the final vote on the Assisted Human Reproduction Act (Bill C-13) approaches, we w...
  18. Austin G. Schmidt, S.J., and Joseph A. Perkins, Faith and Reason: Why Christianity Ma...
  19. Vancouver--"Wrongful birth" suits have now come to Canada and are being successfully ...
  20. Catholic Insight Staff On the west wall of the main corridor of St. Augustine's Se...
  21. Regina, Sask -- Christian activist Hugh Owens placed an ad in the Saskatoon Star Phoe...
  22. Moscow -- In November 2002, C.L, published a troubling report on the escalation of cl...
  23. On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, the President of the U.S. Conference of Bishops, Gre...
  24. Jerusalem--Israeli PM Ariel Sharon has cobbled together a basically anti-Palestinian ...
  25. Toronto, Calgary--UNICEF never gives up. In the late summer of 2002, this pro-abortio...
  26. Quebec City--Newly installed Archbishop Marc Ouellet of Quebec City, who is also Prim...
  27. Manila, Philippines--Sister Ruth Pfau, a German-born physician and religious of the D...
  28. Ottawa--" Marriage is threatened but not by gays," wrote Linda Williamson, senior ass...
  29. London--A few snapshots of life in Prime Minister Blair's Britain. Even as he prepare...
  30. Baguio, Philippines -- Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, an economist by ...
  31. I just received a January/February copy of Catholic Insight and read the article on p...
  32. Editor At the time of writing (March 5), the Middle East is about to experience wa...
  33. Some months have passed since I wrote about the sexual abuse crisis in the U.S. Catho...
  34. The Globe and Mail's Paul Knox in a thoughtful article on Dec. 11, 2002, asked: "Is i...
  35. Chicago -- More would have been expected of Cardinal Francis George of Chicago who di...
  36. Christ's Passion is not just a topic for re-affirmation at Easter. Books denying it a...
  37. Having grown up in the catechetically-challenged 1970's, I've experienced my share of...
  38. In Kugluktuk, Nunavut, fifteen hundred people live nestled between tundra and Arctic ...
  39. Chris Kempling, the B.C. teacher/guidance counsellor, is under attack by the B.C. Tea...
  40. Peter J. Kreeft, Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs base...
  41. In philosophy the derivation of the divine attributes comes directly from the argumen...
  42. Winnipeg--On June 30, 1973, Eparch (Bishop) Vasyl Velychkovsky, a refugee from persec...
  43. Montreal--In September 2002, over 1,000 Concordia University students and supporters ...
  44. Dublin--Irish seminaries once exported their "surplus" priests to all parts of the En...
  45. I wasn't surprised to read that some anorexics celebrate their condition. According t...
  46. Vancouver--The "Protection of Conscience Project" is an inter-denominational, interna...
  47. The January/February 2002 issue of Catholic Insight magazine published "Life, death a...
  48. Karl Keating, The Usual Suspects: Answering Anti-Catholic Fundamentalists, Ignatius P...
  49. Nairobi, Kenya--Some experts say the dramatic drop in HIV/AIDS infections in Uganda i...
  50. Christopher Dawson, The Dynamics of World History, edited by John J. Mulloy, Wilmingt...
  51. Toronto--Frank Gagliano, Chairman, and Rudy De Siato, Vice-chairman, announced on Feb...
  52. Books received from Catholic publishers From One Way Publishing House, Site 500, B...
  53. Lorene Collins, Salvation Redefined: Catholic parents and religious education in post...
  54. The federal Progressive Conservative party is holding its national meeting and leader...
  55. Congratulations on the January/February issue. It was a delight to see a couple of ne...
  56. I just picked up your editorial in the January/February issue and your recommendation...
  57. Is there a double standard? An excavation process is underway in British Columbia on ...
  58. Part 1 The tragedy of the nineteenth century, observed Pope Pius XI, was that, in ...
  59. What a sad pass we've come to, I thought one night last month while enjoying a local ...
  60. Rome -- Is there sufficient cause, from a moral standpoint, for a war with Iraq? Theo...
  61. Washington -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on February 26, 2003, that a federal racke...
  62. Rome -- Anew photo journal captures the daily life of Catholics in China and tells of...
  63. Ottawa--The discussion on the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, Bill C-13, which began...
  64. On December 20, 2002, (just in time for Christmas) by a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Cou...
  65. The apostolate was founded in Rome in 1917 by the saint who started his Militia Immac...
  66. Books received from Catholic publishers From St. Joseph's Workshop (distributor fo...
  67. Jerusalem--At the end of the 19th century, Christians made up 25% of the population o...
  68. I was interested to read one of your news items for the November 2002 issue entitled ...
  69. People sometimes ask, "Why Catholic Christian Outreach?" Catholics are surely Christi...
  70. Ottawa--Rather than issuing their own declaration, the Canadian Conference of Catholi...
  71. In your Lay Movements column (Jan/Feb 2003, p.25), Ann Wilson states that Catholics U...
  72. In Catholic high schools and colleges several decades ago, there was a course in the ...
  73. Vatican City--Over Christmas, Pope John Paul expressed deep concern over the impendin...
  74. On September 1, 1939, the Nazi war machine brutally hurled itself on Poland. With lig...
  75. Ottawa--At the end of January 2003, the House of Commons opened the debate on cloning...
  76. My wife and I are members of the ROM. We recently visited the ossuary there and found...
  77. Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young, Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt f...
  78. Cologne--In December 2002, Cardinal Joachim Meisner attacked the loss of family value...
  79. Timmins, ON--Father Les Costello, the first priest to join the "Flying Fathers" hocke...
  80. How well I remember tuning into The Phil Donahue Show one wintry morning in 1973 when...
  81. Beauval, SK--Over 10,000 visitors have reportedly visited three northern communities ...
  82. We enter the Old City of Jerusalem by St. Stephen's Gate and I think of how he was st...
  83. The following article is authored by Allan C. Brownfeld, Executive Director of the Am...
  84. Vatican--Pope John Paul II's World Peace day message, 2003, commemorates the 40th ann...
  85. I read with interest Father Kennedy's article on Larry Henderson in the November 2002...
  86. Ivan Innerst, Saints for Today: Reflections on Lesser Saints, Ignatius Press, San Fra...
  87. Earlier this year a court in Venice, Italy ordered a gynaecologist to pay for the foo...
  88. Durban, South Africa--Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's only ruler since its independence fro...
  89. It amazes me that an otherwise excellent magazine would give Fr. Bob Holmes a platfor...
  90. San Pedro Sula--The two bishops of the San Pedro Sula diocese in Honduras issued a pa...
  91. On November 30, 2002, some 350 London Muslims, Christians and Jews, including the may...
  92. Rome--On January 17, 2003, the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) publis...
  93. On December 20, 2002, Canada's Supreme Court ruled in favour of homosexual BC schoolt...
  94. The first two freedoms guaranteed under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms a...
  95. Quebec City--The Ottawa Citizen and the Toronto Star reported on January 23, 2002, th...
  96. On the last page of the December issue of C.I., you have reviewed the opening volume ...
  97. A cold, dreary afternoon spent in a grand ballroom of the Royal York Hotel listening ...
  98. Who has been the most influential person of the last half century? A tough question, ...
  99. Hamilton--Birth control types in the Hamilton, ON, area raised a toast at a party on ...
  100. Ottawa--Quebec City has a new archbishop. Bishop Marc Ouellet, P55 (Sulpician), 58, s...
  101. Among those who disagree is the London-based Catholic Institute of International Rela...
  102. Abortion is, of course, risky for the unborn baby, a.k.a. the fetus. (I think all wou...
  103. Catholic Insight Stuff Readers will be aware that Catholic Insight has paid a grea...
  104. Ottawa--The federal government has approved changes in House of Commons procedures th...
  105. Washington--U.S. pro-life and pro-family advocates are basking in the glow of positiv...
  106. New York -- In an October 7, 2002 article, an "RX for Teen Sex," Time magazine featur...
  107. On July 12, 2002, three Ontario judges--Smith, Blair, and Laforme--ruled in "Halpern ...
  108. George Weigel, The Courage to be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Chur...
  109. Terence Fay, A history of Canadian Catholics, Gallicanism, Romanism, and Canadianism....
  110. You name me as a "dissenting Catholic theologian" in your editorial of November 2002....
  111. The first requirement of the new evangelization is the actual witness of Christians w...
  112. I just finished reading the September issue and it continues to amaze me how fixated ...
  113. Let me thank you for the existence of Catholic Insight. I actually prefer it to the G...
  114. This is to advise that an article in the November edition of your publication ("For t...
  115. I would like to make a comment about the prominent, dare I say liberal, use of the te...
  116. Infertile couples sometimes resort to IVF in order to conceive a child. IVF is a labo...
  117. You cannot make laws to force people not to have or love what is naturally hateful or...
  118. Ottawa--Five years ago Mr. Justice Horace Krever issued his report on Canada's tainte...
  119. Montreal--From October 9 to 11, 2002, McGill University hosted a conference on Plural...
  120. Ottawa--In a November 15, 2002 address about the reception of Vatican II at the insti...
  121. No distinguished American ever began his life under less promising circumstances. He ...
  122. M.P. Svend Robinson's Bill C-250 is an attempt to suppress free speech. We wrote Joe ...
  123. The following essay is the personal view of the author. Readers may ask temselves whe...
  124. Ottawa--Claims of native abuse at residential schools during the twentieth century ha...
  125. Mr. Dooley's "reply to Martin Cauchon, Minister of Justice," (November, 2002, pp. 36-...
  126. The era following Vatican II has been dubbed "the age of the laity," but in some resp...
  127. I am delighted that Preston Manning rejects the proportionalist argument that embryon...
  128. Vatican City--Roman officials have prepared a draft document containing directives ag...
  129. The glory of used-book shops is the unpredictability of their stock. Sometimes it's a...
  130. I can't think of a better honeymoon. My wife, Alba, and I headed to Rome to see one o...
  131. London--Embryologist Dr. Sammy Lee has exposed wrong practices at IVF (in vitro ferti...
  132. In mid-November 2002, Father Robert Holmes, c.s.b., of the Christian Peacemaker Team,...
  133. Rome--In an event underscoring both the warmth Italy feels for him and the healing of...
  134. London--November 11, 2002, was the tenth anniversary of the Church of England's vote ...
  135. The recent funeral Mass for 12-year-old Brendon deSouza of Mississauga was significan...
  136. Pretoria--Once again the Catholic bishops of South Africa have rejected the use of co...
  137. "Freedom can primarily be characterized by the absence of coercion or constraint. If ...
  138. A letter to the editor in the September 2002 issue of C.I., by Canadian Alliance Just...
  139. Ted Schmidt, Shabbes Goy. ISBN # 0-9730505-0-0, Paperback, $21.50 Shabbes Goy, wri...
  140. I can't believe November is here already. It seems we've scarcely become accustomed t...
  141. Stephen J. Genuis, M.D. and Shelagh K. Genuis, BScOT, Teen Sex: Reality Check, Sexual...
  142. Over the last half century, we have witnessed an astounding coarsening of conscience ...
  143. Toronto--A few years ago a parent brought his daughter to start her university reside...
  144. Like the proverbial frog, which allowed itself to be boiled to death in a pot because...
  145. Teenagers are caught up in a virtual epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)...
  146. On May 1,2002, Larry Henderson retired as Managing Editor of the Canadian Catholic mo...
  147. The "Marc Hall" episode of May this year in which a "gay" Oshawa student, supported b...
  148. Castel Gandolfo, Italy--Pope John Paul II says the "mystical passion" proper to monas...
  149. Is vicarious responsibility really being extended now, from the person to the whole g...
  150. Toronto--"We knew when we took on this project there would be a cost involved," says ...
  151. As we approach the glorious celebration of Christmas, no music will fill the air as o...
  152. Government delegates and NGO's (Non-government organizations) found their way to the ...
  153. In a letter dated July 10, 2002, Minister of Justice Martin Cauchon responded to ques...
  154. Berlin--On September 20, 2002, the Vatican appealed to the international community to...
  155. Many of the new lay movements in the Church are prayer communities. Because of the im...
  156. In 1996 more than thirty youths and young adults organized to serve as Christian musi...
  157. Straight Talk is an ecumenical ministry which provides youth with educational resourc...
  158. Steubenville, OH--A recent conference for catechists at the University of Steubenvill...
  159. Religious leaders' views run the gamut But some have come out in favour of the mil...
  160. "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord" (Lk 1:46) is the beginning of Mary's Ma...
  161. Brasilia--Once again, an episcopal conference, this one in Brazil, has blocked pro-li...
  162. Paul Likoudis, Amchurch Comes Out, Petersburg, Ill, Roman Catholic Faithful Inc., P.O...
  163. Moscow--Officials of the Russian Federation have now either deported, or denied re-en...
  164. Vatican City--John Paul II remembered Cardinal Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan as a ...
  165. Rome--French actor Gerard Depardieu has announced that, at the Pope's request, he wil...
  166. George Weigel, The Truth of Catholicism, New York: Harper Collins, 2001, pp.126, $36....
  167. Vancouver--On November 23, 1999, the pro-life students' Genocide Awareness Project (G...
  168. Vancouver--Christopher Kempling, a teacher and counsellor at a Quesnel, B.C. high sch...
  169. Many people speak of same-sex marriages. As Mr. Hugh Loughran pointed out at the rece...
  170. Jerusalem--John Paul II has once again called for a commitment to peace in the Holy L...
  171. The Canadian Human Rights Commission in Ottawa published a press release on August 9,...
  172. Athens--The Greek Orthodox Church has rejected a proposal to introduce modern Greek i...
  173. Vatican--A Papal message addressed on September 14, to the Minim Sisters of Our Lady ...
  174. Catholic Insight (July/August 2002, p.27)refers to the document Religiosorum Institut...
  175. Stringent new immigration rules were brought in by Denis Coderre, Minister of Citizen...
  176. Books received from Catholic publishers From Ignatius Press, 2515 McAllister St., ...
  177. In August the U.S. Senate considered ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of A...
  178. Over previous years Catholic Insight has brought numerous articles on the pros and co...
  179. Barcelona -- HIV/AIDS is not going away; in fact, it has not even peaked. This news w...
  180. Hugh Ballantyne's excellent account of his leading a large group of young choristers ...
  181. The article "Marc Hall" in the July/August issue described a request from a 17-year-o...
  182. I was very interested in Daniel Callam's article 'Catholics in public life' (C.I., Ju...
  183. "We've had enough exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues....
  184. When I was a child, I was taught that attaining eternal salvation was Job One. Nowada...
  185. Rimini, Italy -- The Catholic Church's influence in India is far greater than its sha...
  186. Rome--On August 21,2002, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace published a boo...
  187. Medicine Hat, AB--Celina Ling had planned to get married at St. Patrick's Church here...
  188. Having embraced the culture of death, Canada is dying, as it deserves to do. The d...
  189. Books received from Catholic publishers From Ignatius Press, 2515 McAllister St., ...
  190. Vatican--The Church has a vast network of institutions which help the poor and the si...
  191. I have never been to the Holy Land, and given the current state of affairs in that pa...
  192. Wade Rowland, Galileo's Mistake: The Archeology of a Myth, Thomas Allen Publishers, T...
  193. Ever since the price of cigarettes in Ontario went up (I think it was a month ago) oc...
  194. World Youth Day 2002 was an experience that most of us will never quite forget. Media...
  195. Rome--On June 28, Cardinal James Stafford, head of the Pontifical Council on the Lait...
  196. Washington--On August 12, a document entitled "Reflections on Covenant and Mission" w...
  197. Part I: What happened in Dallas? The documentary article "U.S. Cardinals visit Rom...
  198. Dear Young People, 1. When, back in 1985, I wanted to start the World Youth Days, I ...
  199. Two newspaper columns which appeared around the middle of May 2002 brought out the sh...