Stories Collection

  1. Luciana Frassati A man of the beatitudes: Pier Giorgio Frassati, Ignatius Press, San ...
  2. The Cheshire Home development falls neither under the category of new Catholic "movem...
  3. Rome -- In January of this year, the Holy Father lamented that believers are being ma...
  4. An article on homeschooling in the Ottawa Citizen (March 11, 2002) had this to say: ...
  5. Two years ago I was dismayed to learn that I was no longer young. I was reading a bro...
  6. Strasbourg -- The Catholic Church has an observer seat at the United Nations and from...
  7. Recently the Catholic weekly out of London, England, The Tablet, carried corresponden...
  8. Ottawa -- Prime Minister Jean Chretien escaped making a huge political blunder after ...
  9. As far as we have been able to ascertain, there is no Catholic radio station in Canad...
  10. Readers of Catholic Insight should beware: Anyone who steadfastly upholds the histori...
  11. London -- In April, an Anglican group declared that its members will leave the Church...
  12. Vancouve, B.C. -- On June 15, 2002, the governing synod of the 26,000 Anglican faithf...
  13. Kananaskis, Canada -- The G-8 summit of June 26-27, held in a Rocky Mountain resort, ...
  14. Washington, DC -- In his apostolic constitution on higher education, Ex Corde Ecclesi...
  15. Jane Poulson, The Doctor Will Not See You Now: The Autobiography of a Blind Physician...
  16. But by this time the European Parliament had ratified a report on "Sexual and Reprodu...
  17. After digging through a paper which I downloaded from the British Medical Journal's w...
  18. Guatemala City -- On July 30, John Paul II canonized Brother Pedro de San Jose de Bet...
  19. James Monti, The King's Good Servant But God's First, The life and writings of Saint ...
  20. Mexico City -- When President Vicente Fox kissed John Paul II's ring during the July ...
  21. Toronto -- During World youth Day week, July 22-29, 2002, Toronto's professional Cath...
  22. San Francisco -- At the beginning of July, a three-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circu...
  23. Catholic Insight staff Catholic Insight published Rory Leishman's article "The jud...
  24. Washington -- At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court, by a vote of 5-4, opened th...
  25. I noted that a recent Catholic Insight article regarding MP Svend Robinson's private ...
  26. Vatican City -- On June 16, the Pope hailed the new saint as a model of prayer and ch...
  27. Toronto -- In Ontario, the government provides tax credits to parents who choose priv...
  28. I enjoy your publication very much as it highlights the secularization of society and...
  29. Garry Wills, Why I Am A Catholic, (Boston, Houghton Mifflin), (Toronto, Thomas Alien ...
  30. Catholic Insight Staff In an article on "Gay Priests and Gay Marriage" in the Amer...
  31. Michael S. Rose, Goodbye! Good Men. Washington, DC: Regnery Press, 2002, 288 pp. Hard...
  32. Brian Clowes, Ph.D., Catholics For A Free Choice, Human Life International, Front Roy...
  33. Winnipeg -- Manitoba's Oblates of Mary Immaculate (LOMI in French) are approaching ba...
  34. "Wild Youth Day?" I retorted to a friend, who made a slip in saying "World Youth Day....
  35. Joe Clark, Federal leader of the Progressive Conservatives and MP for Calgary Centre,...
  36. Serra began in 1935 and now numbers 22,000 Serran men and women in 732 Clubs in 35 co...
  37. In the "Marc Hall" article (C.I., July/August, pp. 14-16), it was reported that OECTA...
  38. I have been reading Father Kennedy's book The Catholic School in an Age of Dissent. I...
  39. What should one make of the extraordinary events of "World Youth Day" which, as I wri...
  40. Editor What a glorious week it was, World Youth Day in Toronto, July 23-29. In his...
  41. The problem of homosexuality among priests cannot be dealt with truthfully without co...
  42. Thank you for the superb article by Dr. John B. Shea in the April issue of Catholic I...
  43. Leonard A. Kennedy, C.S.B., The Catholic School in an Age of Dissent. Toronto, Life E...
  44. The Vatican has targeted problems with Internet journalism and wants journalists them...
  45. Ottawa--At the end of April the CCCB announced five episcopal appointments by the Pop...
  46. Dr. Shea shows clearly that Sr. Joan Acker's and Daryl P. Domning's recent articles i...
  47. The previous four articles printed earlier were, "Psychology's preoccupation with sel...
  48. The Madonnas of Europe, with photographs by Janusz Rosikon and text by Wojciech Nizyn...
  49. Our eldest daughter Christine likes to prepare for things well in advance and she att...
  50. Dr. John B. Shea, The Safer Sex Illusion Toronto, Life Ethics Information Centre, 104...
  51. Last year Catholic Insight brought several articles discussing "new models" of the Ch...
  52. What an excellent edition of Insight you produced in April. It was so timely it was u...
  53. Anyone who thinks basic human rights are secure in Canada should ponder the plight of...
  54. The visit of the U.S. Cardinals with the Holy Father on April 23-24, 2002, was treate...
  55. The following letter was received unsolicited and we print it here as an accompanying...
  56. Television is not a medium that is congenial to treating philosophical or theological...
  57. Bogota--In the wake of the March 16, 2002, murder of Archbishop Isaias Duarte Cancino...
  58. Born in rural Saskatchewan to Austrian parents 73 years ago, Archbishop Adam Exner is...
  59. Moscow--A Catholic bishop, Polish-born Jerzy Masur, of Irkutsk, Siberia, and a priest...
  60. Bethlehem--Already in October 2001, the Israeli army had invaded Bethlehem in retalia...
  61. Rome--Told in a 2001 interview that the Italian translation of the new Ritual for Exo...
  62. Washington/Texas--On April 4, 2002, the U.S. President called upon Israel to withdraw...
  63. The May editorial called for resistance on the part of Catholic and Evangelical MPs i...
  64. I accept Lise Anglin's precision in regard to the faithful transmission of revealed t...
  65. Toronto--At the end of January, Toronto learned that it had a growth industry it knew...
  66. Traditionally, Anglican bishops are the only religious leaders who sit in the House o...
  67. Ottawa--On April 24, Life Site News reported on what is called one of the most outrag...
  68. Fees to attend Canada's professional schools are about to go up. Way, way up. Catholi...
  69. This convocation address was delivered at St. Paul's University, Ottawa. Editor. Thi...
  70. I appreciate your attempt to address what you may see as concerns in Catholic orthodo...
  71. Toronto--My mother, Isabel Graham, first introduced me to natural family planning whe...
  72. The decline of Catholic higher eduation in Canada has been an unobserved fact. In the...
  73. In matters liturgical there is considerable tension between those who favour more aut...
  74. Toronto--In March, C.I., reported on the antics of 'Catholic' dissenters Joanna Manni...
  75. Father Bedard says in his article "The bells ring - Lex Orandi" that a nationwide sur...
  76. Though many Catholics now say the Rosary every day of the year, the month of May is s...
  77. Wesley J. Smith, Culture of Death: the assault on medical ethics in America, San Fran...
  78. Vancouver--On March 20, Archbishop Adam Exner of Vancouver, after consulting his prie...
  79. Dublin--In a March 6 ballot with a low turnout of approximately 42%, Irish voters nar...
  80. Books received from Catholic publishers From Emmaus Road Publishing, Inc., 827 N. ...
  81. Ottawa--The Government of Canada's proposed legislation governing assisted human repr...
  82. The March/April issue of Reality, the magazine of Real Women of Canada, explained how...
  83. Peter Stockland hit the nail on the head in his article on Gzowski when he said that ...
  84. Montreal--Tribute flowed freely at the news of Riopelle's death. Yet the pens let sli...
  85. Barrie, ON--The Barrie Examiner of February 21, highlighted the case of local physici...
  86. While I've no idea what Josef Mengele might have made of the exhibition of flayed bod...
  87. I refer to the item that bears my name as a heading (C.I., March 2002, p.31). It is u...
  88. Ottawa--On March 16, Liberal Senator Laurier LaPierre delivered an impassioned speech...
  89. Vatican City--The third edition of the Roman Missal has been published in Latin, the ...
  90. Editor After years of delay the federal government has promised legislation dealin...
  91. I was asked in a telephone survey recently what I thought was the biggest problem in ...
  92. In the Catholic Register of February 10, 2002, there is a letter from William S. Wats...
  93. Mr. Stockland's article (March 2002) reveals him as a troubled, vindictive, vitriolic...
  94. Bruce Chilton, Rabbi Jesus, an Intimate Biography: The Jewish Life and Teaching That ...
  95. I guess I should be flattered that Ms. Joy remembers things I said twenty years ago. ...
  96. Brussels--The future of the European Union is being debated over the next 12 months b...
  97. It was a minor, modern-day morality tale. No surprise, then, that it had Bill Gates a...
  98. One of the more sobering aspects of living in a culture of death is that we are, inde...
  99. Marie-Jeunesse is a spiritual family of young people, a new community in the Catholic...
  100. I have just finished reading Father Kennedy's comments on this subject (C.I., March 2...
  101. In December 2001, I published my "Notes on current theology." There I touched upon a ...
  102. The outcome of the presidential election in NICARAGUA, November, 2001, is good news f...
  103. The editor of Toronto's Catholic Register, Joseph Sinasac, marked Cardinal Gerald Emm...
  104. Many women experience distress after having an abortion, sometimes many years after. ...
  105. Washington, D.C.--On March 13, 2002, the United Sates, acting in the United Nations S...
  106. Vatican City--The growing revelation of homosexual sex-abuse cases has called forth a...
  107. San Francisco, CA--Fr. Joseph Fessio, 61, is an energetic Jesuit priest who has made ...
  108. Father Bob Bedard, Reflections of a Veteran Priest, Koinonia Enterprises, 2001, pp. 2...
  109. Ottawa--Life Site News (LSN) reported in February that Canada's new Foreign Minister,...
  110. Oshawa, ON -- A request from 17-year-old Catholic high school student Marc Hall for p...
  111. In the American Catholic Weekly The Wanderer of March 21, 2002, Paul Likoudis wrote a...
  112. Basil W. Maturin, Christian Self-Mastery, Sophia Institute Press, PO Box 5284, Manche...
  113. Why do we appoint only lawyers to the Supreme Court of Canada? This made sense when t...
  114. Iain Benson is a lawyer whose practice is now restricted to constitutional law involv...
  115. Ottawa--As merely the husband of Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson, John Ralston Sau...
  116. In Rome on the morning of February 28, 2001, Pope John Paul II welcomed a thousand ju...
  117. Boys, Sr. Mary C., S.N.J.M., Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christ...
  118. I've long meant to write something about procrastination, but I'd kept putting it off...
  119. Toronto-The release of a film entitled Fat Girl was held up by the Ontario Film Revie...
  120. Mi Casa is Spanish for My House. Mi Casa Ministries is an organization of Canadian Ca...
  121. Vatican City--The latest Annuario Pontificio reports there are more diocesan priests,...
  122. With recent publicity in North American newspapers, magazines, radio and TV, about th...
  123. Rome--On February 3, the Holy Father marked the "Day of Life," celebrated in Italy on...
  124. The recent past has witnessed quite a few attempts to explain the Anglican-Roman Cath...
  125. Berlin--In March, C.I. (p. 24) reported that a new movie based on Rolf Hochhuth's ant...
  126. Editor Priestly involvement in homosexual child-abuse has reached an unheard of le...
  127. Vatican--The past few years have seen many advances in cooperation between Catholic a...
  128. In "The Roots of Muslim Rage," an article published in The Atlantic in 1990, Bernard ...
  129. Rome--Taiwan's tiny Catholic community--some 200,000 faithful--has been given a new m...
  130. The first three articles appeared in November 2001, p.35 (psychology's preoccupation ...
  131. Toronto--Archbishop Wall, former Archbishop of Winnipeg, died on March 5, 2002, in To...
  132. In February, John Philip Walker Lindh was indicted on ten criminal charges in the Dis...
  133. January of each year brings with it the Church's request to pray for unity. Hence, th...
  134. I am a new reader of Catholic Insight, having just obtained my first copy of your per...
  135. Ottawa--On May 7, 1996, medical doctor Grant Hill, Alliance Member of Parliament and ...
  136. John Powell, a professor at Loyola University in Chicago, writes about a student in h...
  137. In Part I, (March, pp. 34-38) Dr. Dooley described Newman's youth and early life, his...
  138. Vatican--On January 28, 2002, in his annual address to the Roman Rota, a Vatican trib...
  139. London--A report issued by the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) in the UK on February ...
  140. I would like to question Sister Joan Chittister's views on women's inequality in the ...
  141. Evolution continues to be contentious because so many aspects are scientifically ques...
  142. St. Clair McEvenue, Raising Hell: What stops parents from handing on the faith to the...
  143. On January 29, 2002, the Law Reform Commission of Canada issued a 26-page report reco...
  144. Home-schooled children are, on average, more academically and socially advanced than ...
  145. Vatican--On January 10, in a New Year's address to the diplomatic corps, Pope John Pa...
  146. What does it take to get people into action? On the evening of December 13, 2001, ind...
  147. St. John's, NFLD--Television can colour virtually all aspects of a child's life, says...
  148. North Bay--The Church in Canada has lost one of its most notable bishops in the death...
  149. You corrected Bernard Pickles' view regarding multiculturalism (C.I., Dec. 2001). Thi...
  150. In December, 2001, the National Post devoted a third of a page to a 79-year-old Irish...
  151. Maynooth--At their conference here on December 13, 2001, the Irish bishops have given...
  152. Regarding the recent Synod of bishops in Rome (see Notes on current theology, Dec. 20...
  153. Rio de Janeiro--Amid the strains of the Te Deum and the reading of welcoming words fr...
  154. There is no other word in our language that is more abused, misused, and confused tha...
  155. Recently "little" Therese of Lisieux-distinct from her Carmelite sister, the "great" ...
  156. Toronto--The issue of women's ordination continues to be pursued by feminists. In our...
  157. In your response to Moran McMahon (C.I., Dec. 2001), you write, "...So after doing ev...
  158. Vatican City--A new 200-page Vatican document entitled The Jewish People and their Sa...
  159. Who is of more value to the Church: the convert, or the "cradle" Catholic? That's ...
  160. Toronto--Joanna Manning will not rest. Not only does the divorced "Catholic" school t...
  161. Washington--The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is taking the latest docu...
  162. Barry's Bay--Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy (see C.I., June 2000) completed the firs...
  163. Over the last few months much has been written about the editorial control which the ...
  164. No doubt, like many other Catholics, I read with perplexity and bewilderment the ongo...
  165. "Dear Young People!... 'You are the salt of the earth... You are the light of the wor...
  166. When CBC icon Peter Gzowski died in late January, the eulogies informed us something ...
  167. One very dreary Sunday afternoon recently, I curled up in my living room to watch the...
  168. The Legion of Mary is not really a new association but it is one of the most importan...
  169. Permit me, first of all, to congratulate you for your first-rate magazine. The scope ...
  170. In the late nineteen fifties, Pierre Berton wrote the following about the paddle, sol...
  171. Vatican--Sister Maria Lucia has said that the secret of Fatima does not refer to the ...
  172. I just read the article on contraception and Msgr. Foy's reply in the December 2001 C...
  173. Vatican City--Following the recognition of the second miracles attributed to their in...
  174. Regnum Christi is an international Catholic movement, a lay apostolate at the service...
  175. The Honourable (and this is one of those rare occasions when the encomium is deserved...
  176. The pro-life cause is dear to us all, but we keep hearing the same arguments pro and ...
  177. Those who have been hoping and praying for the Canonization of Cardinal Newman receiv...
  178. Assisi--The summit meeting of leaders of the world's religions took place in Assisi, ...
  179. "North America's coverage downplays priest's warnings." In early December, Rome's of...
  180. Belfast--The surface calm in place since late November 2001 in the Ardoyne area of No...
  181. Michael J. Behe, William A. Dembski, and Stephen C. Meyer, Science and Evidence for D...
  182. Toronto--On December 6, 2001, the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute held an open ...
  183. Rome--On November 4, 2001, the Holy Father beatified eight Servants of God, as he ter...
  184. Washington--In the Saskatchewan Prairie Messenger, October 17, Father Laurence DeMong...
  185. Toronto--At its annual meeting, Thomas Langan, president of the Catholic Civil Rights...
  186. Vancouver--On November 8, 2001, Susan Martinuk, a Vancouver journalist, noted the iro...
  187. "But my people did not heed my voice and Israel would not obey so I left them in thei...
  188. Michael D. O'Brien, - A Landscape with Dragons, Ignatius Press, 1998 (2nd ed.), pp. 1...
  189. Rushfeldt, Judy, Freedom versus Feminism: How Radical Feminism Represses Women, Calga...
  190. Indonesian violence continues between Muslims and Christians, the latest outbreak bei...
  191. The daughter of a newly beatified martyr lives in Canada and recalls some incidents o...
  192. "With their elegant clothes and gray coiffures, the women who gathered in the quiet, ...
  193. In our December 200l issue, we brought Father Lazare's critique of the Harry Potter b...
  194. London--Evangelical members of the Church of England (Anglican) have written Cardinal...
  195. The following article is a much abbreviated version of Dr. Shea's original paper. The...
  196. Toronto--There are five candidates for the job of Ontario Premier. Mike Harris has an...
  197. This article (Nov. 2001, page 31) touched a nerve. No, several nerves. My wife, Anna,...
  198. The federally funded "gay" attacks on Canadian society continue unabated. Having rece...
  199. New York--Joseph Chamie, director of the Population Division of the U.N. Department o...