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Nota in Brevis
A Homeless Generation
An intriguing, and disconcerting, claim by Martin Pelletier, CIO, that the minimum income to qualify for a mortgage on an 'average house' in Canada is now $200,000. Keep in mind this is just to...
Nota in Brevis
Boniface, Belloc and the New Paganism
This is the memorial of the great Saint Boniface, whose life story is well recounted by Pope Benedict in an accompanying post, and whose own Christian Faith he owes to the evangelizing efforts of...
Nota in Brevis
Sacred Choral Concert: Saint Vincent de Paul Church, Roncesvalles
For those in the Toronto area this upcoming weekend, on Sunday evening, there is a choral concert presented by students from Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College. Admission is by free-will donation. Come and...
Nota in Brevis
Talk on Euthanasia and MAiD
For those in the local area of the Madawaska Valley, there is a presentation tomorrow evening, Wednesday, June 5th, from 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion, 250 John Street, Barry's...
Editor's Corner
Warsaw Bans the Cross
The secularization of Poland continues apace: The mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, has now banned any public display of crosses (and any other 'religious symbol'), including on one's own desk at work. The Prime...
Nota in Brevis
Canon Law, Tornadoes and Reprisals
May 27th marks the anniversary of the promulgation of the first official Code of Canon Law, by Benedict XV in 1917. The laborious - even Herculean - endeavour of collating the two millennia wide...
Articles
Our Lady, Help of Christians
Today is the memorial of Our Lady Help of Christians, a title that seems first to have been used by Saint John Chrysostom, patriarch of Constantinople, in 345, and invoked ever since. In the...
Reviews
Cantatas for Pentecost, Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam
J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) , composed a series of cantatas for the Church's liturgical year during his time as kappelmeister and kantor at Saint Thomas church in Leipzig, from 1723. He wrote over...
