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Nota in Brevis
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...
Nota in Brevis
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...
Nota in Brevis
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...
Nota in Brevis
Hobbit Virtues
For those who need a bit of a lift from all the dark and dreary news of late, in these dark days of December - there is light, and the Light, on their way!...
Reviews
Handel’s Miraculous Messiah
Handel's Messiah, first performed on April 13th, 1742 (in Dublin of all places) was Composed by a German, who had become a naturalised Brit, with a libretto in English. Handel's Oratorio is customarily connected...
