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Quotes
Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer, if it were offered to God (Saint Martin de Porres +1639)
Quotes
For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead. But if he was looking to the splendid...
Nota in Brevis
A Saintly Major-General
It is impressive, fitting for this Solemnity - and a quasi-litany as a bonus:
https://youtu.be/Fnt-P38ykc4
Reviews
Palestrina’s Iesu Rex Admirabilis
The feast of Christ the King (in the usus antiquior) was put in place on this last Sunday of October to counteract so-called Reformation Sunday, for the Protestants held that the earthly potentate was...
Nota in Brevis
The Conversion of Eva Vlaandinerbroek
We cradle Catholics all feel a bit of a boost when we hear of converts, especially of the famous sort, even if we also welcome the infamous, the non-famous, the obscure and the hidden...
Nota in Brevis
Gerhard Cardinal Müller and the Synod
I going to write a few words on the Synod on Synodality, as it wraps up its first phase (phase II next October) and may yet do so, but I could hardly do better...
Editor's Corner
Trudeau’s Tinfoil Hat
One of the worst of logical fallacies - which is to say, the weakest - is the ad hominem argument. That is, instead of responding to your opponent's arguments in a reasoned manner, you...
Nota in Brevis
Testimony of an Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Alumnus
Dr. Patrick McNeely - it is disconcerting writing that, as I knew him in what seems like yesterday as a fresh 18 year-old first year a number of years ago, and how far he...
