Catholic Insight takes to heart the teachings of the Second Vatican Council. It seeks to read the "signs of the times" and to bring the truth of Christianity to all people: for as the council states, "the human person deserves to be preserved; human society deserves to be renewed." (Gaudium et spes)

Published 10 times a year by the Life Ethics Information Centre in Toronto, and edited by Father Alphonse de Valk, Catholic Insight is an excellent resource for schools, colleges and libraries, and is invaluable to anyone searching for true freedom amid the tensions and incoherence peculiar to life in the modern world.

Catholic Insight provides Catholics with food for thought on all areas of life. Christians cannot be "of" the world, but they most certainly must be "in" the world.

Catholic Insight stands with the Holy Father, and all the bishops in union with him not only in theory but in practice. We believe that the Church is of divine origin and guided by the Holy Spirit to keep her from error in teaching faith and morals.

We believe that the Church and her Popes have been faithful in showing the way, the truth and the life, precisely in the midst of the incredible follies, cruelties and superstitions of people in this twentieth century. The doctrine, the faith, the moral guidelines of the Catholic Church are as much - if not more - needed today than in previous ages. Catholic Insight tries to explain them and to apply them to the political, cultural and social situation, especially in Canada.

Some people would like us to believe that pluralism means secularism. "In a pluralistic society," they say, "religion should play no role." Originally, however, pluralism was meant to convey the idea that various groups of different cultural backgrounds should learn to live together. This cultural pluralism did not imply moral pluralism or relativism.

Today, some would like to eliminate religious views from the public forum, as personal and private opinions of no interest to society as a whole. They accuse Catholics of trying to "impose" their views. But they themselves see to it that their own anti-religious, especially anti-Christian views, dominate policies and legislation. Catholic Insight will have none of this.

Catholic Insight rejects the idea that Catholic and Christian legislators or doctors or teachers or anyone else should first check their religion in the closet with their coats, before entering parliament, the hospitals, the school or the workplace.

Catholic Insight calls upon Catholics to renew their commitment to public society precisely as believers in the Lord Jesus.