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Josquin des Prez’ Ave Maria
On this Solemnity of the Annunciation, here is a fitting motet to celebrate with true devotion. During his own life (c. 1455 - 1521) Josquin des Prez was known as the 'Michelangelo of music',...
Editor's Corner
Federal Election, April 28th: The Fight for Canada Continues
After visiting the Governor-General, who must approve in the King's name, Mark Carney has called a federal election here in our fair Dominion of Canada for April 28th, the shortest time permissible by law....
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...
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...
