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Editor's Corner
The Demise, and Rise, of the ‘Book’
Here's an intriguing, and for some, disturbing, take on the publishing industry:
https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books
The title is a bit misleading, in a provocative way, for people are still 'buying books', just not in the traditional and historical...
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First, do what is necessary, then do what is possible, and before long you will find yourself doing the impossible. (Saint Catherine of Siena, +1380)
Nota in Brevis
Marie of the Incarnation: Canadian Mystic and Missionary
Marie de l’Incarnation: Études de théologie spirituelle by Pierre Gervais, S.J.: A Review
Marie of the Incarnation, born Marie Guyart, was one of the first arrivals in 'New France', which would later become Canada, arriving...
Editor's Corner
Saint Agnes of Montepulciano
Saint Agnes of Montepulciano (+1317) is one of the 'incorruptibles'. She was born in the picturesque cliff-top Italian city on January 28th, 1268, the same day as her fellow Dominican, Thomas Aquinas (whose birth...
Editor's Corner
Ælfheah of Canterbury and Leo IX of Rome
Two saints are commemorated on this 19th of April, both of the Middle Ages:
Saint Ælfheah of Canterbury, more commonly known as 'Alphege', was born in 953 outside of Bath in southern England. In youth,...
Nota in Brevis
Trudeau’s New ‘Housing’ Plan
G.K. Chesterton quipped once, if memory serves, that each man, with some diligent and faithful hard work, should be able to afford 'three acres and a cow', to provide for his family in a...
Nota in Brevis
Culloden and Bonnie Prince Charlie
One more note on this April 16th, which also marks the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden in 1746, when the Scottish regiments, in support of Charles Stuart, were decisively defeated by the English....
Nota in Brevis
Google as a Truth Engine?
Most people lie. At least, so it seems, according to a recent podcast by Terry O'Reilly's Under the Influence, which, unlike many shows Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC, speaks a lot of truth, I...
