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Pope Saint Hyginus
Pope Hyginus, whose feast is today, January 11th, reigned from 138 to his death in 142 - the ninth to hold the papal throne. Like most of the early Pontiffs, we know little about...
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Jackson and Zero Debt
On this day in 1835, President Andrew Jackson proudly announced that, with his austere economic policies, the debt of the United States had been reduced - for the first and last time in history...
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Excess Deaths Continue to Climb…and Climb
What, pray tell, is going on? And why is no one reporting on it? The young and middle-aged are dying at increasing rates - excess deaths up to 30% - and the media, the...
Reviews
Keeping the Christmas Caroling: In Dulce Iubilo, the Wexford, and A Rose in Winter.
With the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God today - or, in the usus antiquior, the Circumcision of Our Lord - the Octave of Christmas comes to a close, but the twelve days of...
Editor's Corner
Mother of God, New Year’s Eve, the Te Deum and Auld Lang Syne
A very blessed Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God - of which more, anon - as well as New Year's Eve, the latter much more celebrated in our culture than the former, even if,...
Quotes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was...
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Our Lady in Christmas Carols
An intriguing look at the place of the Virgin Mary in Christmas carols, which, somewhat to my surprise, she is largely absent, being mentioned, even obliquely, in only about 28% of what we might...
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Cancer and the Jab-berwocky
A conversation between Dr. John Campbell and Dr. Angus Dalgliesh, highly recommended, the latter one of the top and most experienced oncologists in Britain, who explains the connection - in causal terms, beyond the...
