Catholic Insight

The philosopher and Carmelite Edith Stein (Saint Teresa Benedicta a Cruce was her name in religion), and the Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe were put both put to death at the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, one year apart, in 1941 and 1942, both in the Marian month of August, on the 9th and 14th, respectively. They did much in life, and even m...

Modern times are dominated by Satan and will be more so in the future. The conflict with hell cannot be engaged by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. However, assumed into Heaven, the Mother of God now requires our cooperation. She seeks souls who will consecrate themselves entirely to her, who will become in her ha...

On August 13th in 1995, Alison Hargreaves, a wife and mother of two small children, summitted the notorious K2, one of the most dangerous mountains in the world, on whose ice-encrusted face 99 climbers have (so far) perished. This attempt on K2 followed upon the heels of what some thought a quixotically dangerous endeavour to summit all three of the highest m...

On this 13th day of August, we commemorate a little-known saint, Cassian of Imola, a Christian schoolmaster in northern fourth-century Italy. By edict of Julian the Apostate, he was commanded to offer sacrifice to the pagan gods, devotion to whom Julian was zealous to reinstantiate. Cassian refused, on the basis of the First Commandment, knowing such ‘gods’ w...

An anti-Pope is someone who thinks he’s the Pope – or at least who claims to be the Pope – when in reality he is not. There’s a few of them around still. And by ‘reality’, we mean Pope by the will of God, as manifested in the laws of the Church. These laws include such things as the rules for conclaves, elections and, yes, resignations.

Hippolytus (170 – ...