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Editor's Corner
The Glorious Martyrdoms of Martin and Maximus
As we enter into Eastertide, we recall on this 13th of April Pope Saint Martin I (+655), one of the noblest, if most tragic, of the successors of Saint Peter. Born in Umbria, Italy,...
Editor's Corner
Saint Gemma Galgani
On this April 11th, in 1903 - the same year that the Italian Guiseppe Sarto was elected Pope later that summer as Pius X - a lovely, young Italian woman died, by the name...
Editor's Corner
An Ideological and Improper Translation
I noticed something odd with the psalm reading at Mass the other day. Our bishops' conference here in Canada has decreed that the Mass in English - Novus Ordo - use the 'NRSV', the...
Editor's Corner
Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle: A Teacher for Teachers
Jean-Baptiste de la Salle (1651 - 1719), a French nobleman, ordained a priest, founded the first order in the Church’s history entirely without priests, and this came about almost by accident. I say ‘almost’,...
Nota in Brevis
Saint Isidore of Seville, the Internet and Industriousness
Today, April 4th, muted this year by Holy Saturday, is the commemoration of Saint Isidore of Seville (560-636) a bishop and doctor of the Church during a tumultuous age, when civilization was crumbling, coming...
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Good Friday and Suffering
Evil and pain is always a mystery, that whole mysterium iniquitatis, of which Saint Paul writes (2 Thess 2:7). In 1984, Pope Saint John Paul II penned an Apostolic Letter on the nature and...
Nota in Brevis
A Minimal Friar and the Death of a Great Pope
This April the second- overshadowed by Holy Thursday this year - marks the memorial of Saint Francis of Paola (1417-1507), founder of the 'Minim' friars, so called for their humility and poverty, who interpreted...
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Saint Hugh of Châteauneuf
Today's Saint Hugh of Châteauneuf (1053 - 1152) is not to be confused with Saint Hugh of Lincoln (1140 - 1200), although their life spans overlapped briefly, both were bishops and both were connected...
