A brave man is clear in his discourse and keeps close to truth.” —Aristotle (+322 B.C.)

Editor's Corner

Saint Leonard of Noblac

Not much is known about today's saint, who, by what accounts we have, died in 559 A.D. And those accounts date only from the...

The Foiling of Fawkes

Remember, remember! the fifth of November.     The Gunpowder treason and plot;     I know of no reason     Why the Gunpowder treason    ...

Charles Borromeo Leads the True Reformation

The memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo (1538-1584) commemorates one of the great pillars - along with Saint Robert Bellarmine, Philip Neri and countless others...

Clarifying One’s Christian Duty

A recent reflection in First Things warns against sacralising politics (or politicizing the sacred), and rightly so. As the prophet Jeremiah warns: cursed is...

The Dies Irae Through the Ages

The Dies Irae - 'Day of Wrath' - is a 13th century sequence preparing us for the final judgement, composed perhaps by the Franciscan...

Nota in Brevis

Google – Don’t Be Evil

Google's motto - replete with irony - was 'don't be evil'. They dropped that in 2018, although it's still apparently somewhere in their code...

St Charles Borromeo, Man of God and Servant of the Church

Today, Monday 4 November 2024, as we are celebrating the feast of St Charles Borromeo, one instinctively moves my heart, the receptivity and the...

Il Poverello, Martin of Porres

Some of the saints signify sanctity in a way that goes beyond the norm, if ‘norm’ can be applied to a thing like sanctity,...

Would the Real ‘Fascist’ Please Stand Up?

The term 'fascism' gets a lot of traction in politics, even if few of us could strictly define it. The etymology derives from the...

Litany of the Saints

While we are celebrating the Solemnity of All Saints it is important to appreciate the litany of the Saints. Personally speaking whenever it happens...