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Reviews
Saint Patrick’s Magnificat
Towards the end of his life, Saint Patrick wrote his 'Confessions' which, like his near-contemporaneous Saint Augustine's autobiography of the same title, is meant in the original sense of that word: As a song...
Featured
The Stabat Mater, Dolorosa in Various Versions
For our musical offering on this Third Sunday of Lent, here are a few renditions - amongst many - of the perduring Stabat Mater, the 13th century poem on the sorrows of Mary 'standing...
Nota in Brevis
Embryos and Adoption
We've written before in these pages on the ontological and moral status of pre-born embryos, and the hundreds of thousands of them kept in cold storage. See Aedan Reidy's excellent analysis, and my own...
Editor's Corner
A Catholic Take on Earth Day
A blessed first day of spring to all our readers! As we make our way through our Lenten pilgrimage, Easter is on its way. As the Council of Nicaea decreed in 325, the great...
Nota in Brevis
Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
In this Jubilee year of hope, friends of mine, Pico and Ruth, are organizing a pilgrimage to Spain, to walk part of the final 100 km of the Camino, a route along the northern...
Nota in Brevis
Five Years Ago…
A pithy paragraph from Mark Steyn, summing up much in a few words:
It was five years ago that the entire western world except Sweden replaced various forms of self-government with a completely new, homogeneous...
Editor's Corner
Saint Jan Sarkander, Martyr for Confession and the Faith
Jan Sarkander (1576 – 1620) was a Polish Catholic priest, tortured to death by Protestants over the course of a month at the beginning of the Thirty Years War.
Jan was born in Silesia, into...
Articles
Motets in Honour of Two Very Just Men
Arvo Pärt , an Estonian composer (born 1935, and still going - those hardy Estonians!), is known for his method of tintinabulli, which is not, as may first seem to some readers, setting to...
