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Nota in Brevis
Euthanasia in Britain, Canada Style
It's disconcerting when a former colony - Canada - deforms her mother country - Britain, like a son corrupting his father. As England debates legalizing state-sanctioned murder-suicide - euphemistically known as euthanasia, or 'MAiD'...
Editor's Corner
Victoria Day, Dominion and Ales
A happy Victoria Day to all our readers, when we celebrate the history of our Dominion, first as a French, then a British colony, under both crowns. For better or worse, the Brits won...
Nota in Brevis
Tolkien and Saint Brendan
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote much else besides Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit - he was an Oxford scholar, with many articles and essays and, of course, poems, including one on today's saint, Brendan...
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A Brief Clip of Robert Prevost-Leo XIV
Intriguing to see the then-Father Robert Prevost, as Prior of the Augustinians, now Pope Leo XIV, play a brief part in this documentary on Pope Benedict XVI. We never know quite what the future...
Reviews
Victoria’s Regina Coeli
A truly sublime rendition of the Regina Caeli Laetare, by Tomas Luis De Victoria (1548-1611), as sung by the ensemble Voces8. This work was first published in 1576, at the height of the Catholic...
Nota in Brevis
Leo XIV’s Address to the Cardinals
(A blessed Fourth Sunday of Easter to all our readers! Here is Pope Leo XIV's address to the cardinals who elected him. Towards the end, he offers a few hints on why he chose...
Nota in Brevis
First Sermon of Pope Leo XIV
The new Holy Father offered his first homily this morning, to the College of Cardinals, and it's very good - Christological, evangelical, with a strong message of where we stand as Catholics, against the...
Nota in Brevis
Voting Times for the Conclave
We don't know much of what goes on in a conclave, but we do know the times of the voting, and it wouldn't hurt to pray round about then, for the grace of the...
