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Nota in Brevis
Mater Dolorosa
A blessed memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows to all, a feast begun in the 1233, in that 'greatest of centuries', with the founding in Florence of the 'Servite' Order, when seven young men...
Editor's Corner
A Saint for Canada
Blessed Dina Belanger died on this day in 1929, suffering from tuberculosis, brought on by the scarlet fever she contracted while tending a sick boy. Dina was from a devout Quebec family, and her...
Nota in Brevis
Labour Day
Yesterday, North Korea purportedly test-detonated a hydrogen bomb, raising the tension in the region, and raising the prospect of yet-again the use of nuclear weapons in combat. I have posted today an article I...
Editor's Corner
Gay Wizards and the Benedict Option
I enjoyed a discussion recently with some priest friends on the Benedict Option, particularly as this applies to education. How much do we 'retreat' from the world and its current anti-Christian, even anti-rational, culture,...
Nota in Brevis
Juvenal Ancina
Today is the memorial of Blessed Juvenal Ancina, not much known in the wider world, but a beatified member of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, and the only one of the 'beati' to...
Editor's Corner
Witnessing to the Truth
The decapitation of Saint John the Baptist, or more colloquially his beheading, is a memorial in the Church, unlike his birth, commemorated on June 29th, celebrated as a solemnity. Most saints, the day of...
Nota in Brevis
More on the Bomb
I have received some feedback on my article on the atomic bombings, both positive and negative. The 'comments' section below the article in Crisis signifies a deep, moral division, even amongst conservative and otherwise...
Editor's Corner
Of Hiroshima and Houston
I have an article published this morning in Crisis magazine on the evils of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, responding to an author (Deacon Jim Russell) who wrote on August 7th (between the...
