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Quotes
We have found the Messiah...Andrew’s words reveal a soul waiting with the utmost longing for the coming of the Messiah, looking forward to his appearing from heaven, rejoicing when he does appear, and hastening...
Nota in Brevis
Feast of All the Franciscan Saints
November 29th is the traditional day on which are celebrated all the Saints of the Seraphic Order. It is with every reason that today the Universal Church celebrates the many Franciscan Saints who faithfully...
Editor's Corner
The DSM, Psychiatry, and Big Pharma
The DSM - the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - is the textbook, one might even call it the bible, of psychiatry and psychology. After watching the presentation below, we might be tempted to rename...
Editor's Corner
Faith, Reason and Formal Objects
In 1998, 25 years ago, Pope Saint John Paul II published his encyclical, Fides et Ratio, on the relationship between faith and reason, the 'two wings on which human reason rises to the heights...
Nota in Brevis
Math and the Modern World
Many students - well, let's broaden the genus, and say many former students, with haunted memories of vague equations and sine-curves and integrals - claim to 'hate math', that they were 'never good at...
Featured
Hilary Hahn Plays Tschaikovsky
This is a tour de force, of one woman, her violin - Hilary Han is one of the modern greats - and an impressive orchestra and conductor - oh, and a genius composer, whatever...
Nota in Brevis
Blessed Karolina and Anna, Martyrs for Chastity
Today, particularly in Poland, we recall the virgin-martyr, called the 'Polish Maria Goretti', Karolina Kózka, killed during the First World War, defending her chastity against a Russian soldier. Providential that she shares the same...
Editor's Corner
Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne
November 18th is also the optional memorial of Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne (1769 - 1852), a native of France, but who spent much of her life as a missionary in the American midwest, back...
