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Editor's Corner
Saint Richard of Sussex
Saint Richard of Chichester (+1253) was a mediaeval bishop in Sussex - now the patron saint of that bucolic region in the south of England, whence hailed Hilaire Belloc. I'm not sure if he...
Editor's Corner
It’s Official: John Paul II Day in Canada
Our parish priest reminded us this morning that by statutory law in Canada, today is officially 'John Paul II Day'. I must confess that I did not know, and somehow missed, that back on...
Articles
The Last Easter Homily of Pope Benedict XVI
(Last words are always - or almost always - indicative, and one could reach much into these words of Pope Benedict XVI on his last Easter Vigil as Pope. The light cannot be extinguished,...
Featured
Three Easter Musical Gems
As we begin this Easter Octave with the great Solemnity of Easter itself, music to lift the soul would be one of Bach's Easter cantatas, composed during his time at Leipzig in the early...
Editor's Corner
Good Friday and Suffering
Evil and pain is always a mystery, that whole mysterium iniquitatis, of which Saint Paul writes (2 Thess 2:7). In 1984, Pope Saint John Paul II penned an Apostolic Letter on the nature and...
Nota in Brevis
Good Friday Musical Meditations
Popule Meus, by Tomas Luis de Victoria, Christ's lament from the Cross, 'My People, what have I done to you, or in how have I offended you? Answer me!'
https://youtu.be/bH8t5BKI7Qg
The Reproaches, also by Victoria, who wrote...
Editor's Corner
Digital Dopplgangers
Here we go, with another 'leap' in the A.I. revolution, digital copies being made of products, factories, towns, villages, animals and, ambitiously, of ourselves, our organs, even the entire universe:
https://www.noemamag.com/a-digital-twin-might-just-save-your-life/
I'm not sure about digital...
Nota in Brevis
Princess Kate
Katherine Middleton, Princess of Wales, as readers are likely aware, has just made a moving public announcement that she is suffering from cancer. She speaks stoically, but there must be much emotion behind the...
