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Quotes
Let all Christians, therefore, glory in being subjects of the Virgin Mother of God, who, while wielding royal power, is on fire with a mother's love. (Venerable Pius XII)
Editor's Corner
Is That the Sound of Crunchy Crickets?
As the title of this thread has it, they're starting to slip the bugs in. No, no, not computer bugs, which have been around for decades, but real bugs, with antennae and thoraxes with...
Quotes
the future of the world stands in peril unless wiser men are forthcoming (Gaudium et Spes, 15)
Nota in Brevis
Saint Vincent of LĂ©rins and True Development of Doctrine
Here is a very good take on Saint Vincent of LĂ©rins (+445) and the complex question of the development of doctrine, on which Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman also wrote a millennium and a...
Quotes
And with regard to ourselves, how deservedly do we keep the feast of the Assumption with all solemnity. What reasons for rejoicing, what motives for exultation have we on this most beautiful day! The...
Nota in Brevis
Douglas Farrow’s Thoughts on Smudging and the Sacraments
An intriguing and insightful take here from Dr. Douglas Farrow, a fifth-generation Canadian and professor of theology and ethics at McGill university. My talk at our recent Wojtyla Conference was on the 'Sacramental Nature...
Nota in Brevis
The Empathy of Edith Stein
An intriguing take on Saint Edith Stein from the perspective of empathy, on which the saint wrote her dissertation, an important topic in our world so immersed in suffering. That said, secular authors should...
