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Nota in Brevis
A New Papal Nuncio for Canada
Canada has a new papal nuncio, Archbishop Ivan JurkoviÄŤ, a 68 year old prelate from Slovenia, trained in the diplomatic services of the Vatican from the beginning of his priesthood. Most recently, as the...
Editor's Corner
Sine Dominico Non Possumus
A blessed and grace-filled Solemnity of Corpus Christi! To our Canadian readers, at least, where this day is moved from its regular Thursday, recalling the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper, to...
Nota in Brevis
Slavery, Abortion and Denying Communion
Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it - So Randall Smith begins his must-read essay in The Catholic Thing - a must-read especially by our bishops - on another analogy...
Quotes
Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to...
Quotes
The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course. (Saint Boniface, +754)
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Lauda Sion
From Tomás Luis de Victoria, his motet in praise of the Holy Eucharist, from 1585, in an era when the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was suppressed throughout Europe, falling into the errors of...
Nota in Brevis
An Addendum to the Ugandan Martyrs, and King Mwanga
I was reading some of the corollary to the martyrs we celebrate today, the numerous 'pages' of King Mwanga put to death for resisting his unnatural sexual advances. He had them burned alive, an...
Quotes
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us. ~ Saint Jean Vianney
