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Nota in Brevis
Tolle, Lege!
Ironic, perhaps, that I suggest the following article for our readers, on this medium. For Ed Simon exhorts in strong language for a return to the printed page, to immerse ourselves in books, in...
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Novena to the Immaculate Conception
Here is a worthy and beneficial novena to the Immaculate Conception, whose intercession is much needed in our world - she is the patroness of the United States - and very beneficial to our...
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Courage and Campion’s Brag
We need more thumos in the Catholic Church, the Platonic notion of 'spirit, courage, wherewithal, steadfastness, zeal, magnanimity, capacity' and we may add a host of other synonyms and related terms. Its opposites are...
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ChatGPT and the Purpose of Education
S.A. Dance makes a good case for true education, on the second anniversary of the release of ChatGPT, the 'artificial intelligence' software - which is in essence just an algorithm collating the repertoire of...
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Britain Chooses Death
Tragic, but not a suprise, that the House of Commons yesterday voted by quite a wide margin - 330 to 275 - to legalize physician-assisted murder-suicide, known by the euphemism 'euthanasia'. This literally means...
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Life and Death in Britain
Britain votes tomorrow - or today if you're reading this on Friday - on euthanasia, or more properly the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) legislation, which would permit the 'terminally ill' to be...
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Edvard Grieg’s Ave Maris Stella
To complement our devotion on this memorial-feast of the Presentation of Our Lady, here is Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg's, polyphonic composition of the ancient Latin hymn, Ave Maris Stella, composed in 1888-89.
https://youtu.be/FAZIP2b-ihY
Nota in Brevis
The Proportionality of War
As the stakes rise in the various conflicts around the world, not least in Russia, Ukraine and the Middle east, we should remind ourselves of the Church’s theory of a ‘just war’, which should...
