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The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years. (Saint Philip Neri)
Nota in Brevis
Catholic Education, Whither Art Thou?
The Catholic School Board of Waterloo was going to fly a flag in solidarity - so to speak - with 'Pride Month'. The emblem showed stick figures of different rainbow colours, in front of...
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Sanity in the Courtroom, and a Clarion Call
In a case recently decided in favour of a tanning salon - of all things - filed by owner James Mainer against the strictures of an ever-more Stalinesque state, in this case, Illinois, and...
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Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses. (Pope Saint Paul VI, +1978)
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are. (Saint Augustine of Canterbury, +604)
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A Little Mozart and Bach to Lift Your Spirits
At the suggestion of a reader, here is Mozart's Laudate Dominum, a version of the briefest of the Psalms, 117/118, from his 1780 'Vespers for a Confessor', that is, a saint who struggled mightily...
Nota in Brevis
Benedict, John Paul II and Freedom
Pope Emeritus Benedict wrote a brief reflection on the hundredth anniversary of Pope John Paul II's birth, which is well worth a read, as a reflection of a friend, upon a beloved friend. In...
