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Nota in Brevis
Podcast: What’s In An Apology?
I offer the following thoughts on the Holy Father's apologia in his penitential pilgrimage to Canada as a help in discernment and prayer. They are not meant to be exhaustive; rather to offer food...
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. (Pope Saint John Paul II)
Editor's Corner
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
In 1540, on this 27th day of July, Henry VIII married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. He was 49, and aged well beyond his years, even for that era, grossly overweight, with boils, and...
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Crown and Crozier – Podcast on the Papal Visit
I was recently interviewed on the fine new Crown and Crozier podcast, hosted by Patrick Owen Brown (who has a piece published recently in these pages). You may find the piece on their webpage:...
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Christina the Astonishing and, well, Nick Cave
July 24th is the traditional commemoration of one of the most remarkable of saint, aptly called Christina Mirabilis, Christina the Astonishing (1150 - 1224), dying the year before the birth of Thomas Aquinas, at...
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Paganini, Classical and Gypsy Style
Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1840) was one of the most virtuoso of violinists (and also classical guitarists, apparently), whose compositions count amongst the most technically difficult, and awe inspiring. As he put it, 'I...
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The Battle Continues
Today marks the anniversary of one of the greatest victories in the history of Christendom, the defeat of the Islamic Ottoman Turks on July 22, 1456, fresh from their destruction of Constantinople three years...
