-
Nota in Brevis
Blessed Simon of Lipnica (1435/1440 c. – 1482)
Blessed Simon was born in Lipnica Murowana, in the south of Poland, between the years 1435-1440. His parents, Gregory and Anne, knew how to give him a good education, inspired by the values of...
Editor's Corner
Saint John Gualbert – A Prodigious Prodigal
Giovanni Gaulberto (985 – 1073) – or John Gualbert – was born into a noble Italian family, and like many such, had a dissolute youth, in vanities and ‘romantic intrigues’. Hmm. But he was...
Nota in Brevis
Three Books from a Canadian Author
Up-and-coming author Ben Galeski has written three novels thus far, two of them published by Justin Press, and the third about to be. They are works of historical fiction, a demanding genre, for one...
Nota in Brevis
History from a Journalist’s Perspective
A recent article from The Wall Street Journal on human sacrifice in ancient civilizations, children and maidens being slaughtered en masse for what we would not deem esoteric, superstitious and simply unknown reasons, says the...
Nota in Brevis
A Serendipitous Pilgrimage
I was driving home the other day from a delightful visit with friends and family over the holiday weekend on a lovely remote property - no cell reception! - when, taking a turn in...
Articles
Chanting the Lord’s Prayer in Scotch Gaelic
Some languages are more similar than others, and some in ways we may not expect. One would not put ecclesiastical Latin and Scotch Gaelic into the same category - the words are almost all...
Nota in Brevis
A New Priest for Pembroke
The newly-minted - or should I say, newly chrismed - Father Lukas Casta was ordained a priest for the diocese of Pembroke today, the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, in a beautiful ceremony...
Nota in Brevis
Dead-End Debate
Do politics still mean something? I suppose they mean something, but what exactly, is dubious. We're a long, long way from what Aristotle meant by politics in his eponymous book. Far less do modern...
