Tuesday, December 16, 2025

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Cancer and the Jab-berwocky

A conversation between Dr. John Campbell and Dr. Angus Dalgliesh, highly recommended, the latter one of the top and most experienced oncologists in Britain, who explains the connection - in causal terms, beyond the...

Hobbit Virtues

For those who need a bit of a lift from all the dark and dreary news of late, in these dark days of December - there is light, and the Light, on their way!...

Handel’s Miraculous Messiah

Handel's Messiah, first performed on April 13th, 1742 (in Dublin of all places) was Composed by a German, who had become a naturalised Brit, with a libretto in English. Handel's Oratorio is customarily connected...

Advent and Hope

On a note of hope as we approach the birth of Christ - in a world that seems so devoid of that powerful virtue - here is a fitting reflection by Peter Leithart, which...

Music for Mary

On this Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, as we continue the pilgrimage through the Marian theme of Advent, here are a few musical pieces to lift your souls and spirits: Bruckner's (+1896) Ave Maria: https://youtu.be/vbHKnUhdv8g And, just...

Five Fun Facts About Saint Nicholas

As part of today's celebration of a great saint, here are some factoids that did not make into my own reflection on Saint Nicholas of Myra. And a merry day to one and all.

Dom Alcuin Reid, and Sacrosanctum at Sixty

December 4th, 2023 marks the 60th birthday of Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Constitution on the Liturgy from the Second Vatican Council, and Dom Alcuin Reid has a superlative take on the history, and possible future,...

Evelyn Waugh’s Edmund Campion

Five years after his conversion to Catholicism in 1930, English author Evelyn Waugh set his considerable literary talents - he has been described as the greatest prose stylist of the twentieth century, famous for...

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