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Nota in Brevis
Cardinal Pell’s Last Words
I don't know the final, final words of Cardinal George Pell as he lay in his hospital bed, but here is the last article he had published, in the Spectator, a fitting testament to...
Quotes
The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable. (Saint Hilary of Poitiers, +367)
Nota in Brevis
Pledging Allegiance
As the aphorism goes, pictures speak a thousand words, as we witness societal devolution over the span of a few decades. School have become dangerous, even scandalous, places for children. Woe to those by...
Quotes
Teaching is the work most suited to draw down the graces of God if it is done with purity of intention, without distinction between the poor and the rich, between relatives and friends and...
Editor's Corner
Cardinal Pell, Rest in Peace
George Cardinal Pell died yesterday, suffering a heart attack after what seemed to be routine hip surgery. Requiescat in pace. He was 81, and lived a long and full life, serving the Church in...
Quotes
Christ is bathed in light; let us also be bathed in light. Christ is baptized; let us also go down with him, and rise with him. (Saint Gregory Nazianzen, +390)
Nota in Brevis
Servile Security State
I agree with the good Doctor's diagnosis, but would demur with his prognosis. The rise of a totalitarian regime, based on our biometric data and submission to dubious health protocols, signals a diminution of...
Nota in Brevis
Poisoned Love
There is much that might be said concerning this revelatory tweet - the cult-like mode of the response to covid, for one. This is uncomfortably close to Jim Jones Kool-aid.
Her notion of love is...
