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Nota in Brevis
A Time to Give Thanks, and a Time to Vote
A blessed and joyous Thanksgiving to all our readers, a greeting which we would have offered earlier, but some technical glitches got in the way.
Today is also the memorial of Saint Callixtus, who seems...
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In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear. (Saint Therese of Lisieux)
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Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age (Pope Saint John XXIII)
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Faith is an act of the intellect, assenting to the divine truth, by command of the will, moved by God through grace (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
Editor's Corner
A Danse Macabre of a Debate
Concerning the other night’s ‘debate’, allow me to offer the following enthymeme, a sort of summarized syllogism described by Aristotle:
When a society loses faith, it loses reason.
When we lose reason, we lose manners....
Nota in Brevis
Denis, Leonardi and Newman
We have two saints on the universal calendar today, and one blessed yet to be put thereon, who will be canonized this Sunday.
In historical order, the first is Saint Denis, patron of Paris, her...
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe (Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, +1890)
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A spiritual guide should be silent when discretion requires and speak when words are of service. Otherwise he may say what he should not or be silent when he should speak. Indiscreet speech may...
