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Editor's Corner
Ite ad Joseph with Brother Bessette
Today is the feast of the one of Canada's most beloved saints, her own home-grown Andre Bessette (1845-1937), a humble and obscure lay-brother who founded Saint Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal. A sickly boy, brought up...
Editor's Corner
Pope Francis’ Troubling Terminology
There is a principle in theology – which applies to other sciences as well – that we interpret the less authoritative, the less precise and the less clear, in light of what is more...
Nota in Brevis
Pope Sylvester, and the End of a Decade
As 2019 comes to an end, ‘tis fitting to look back on the year – even the decade - that was, and prepare for what will be. Paula Adamick has her own take on...
Nota in Brevis
Christmas Suffering and Joy
The religion of ‘peace’ continues its Christmas gift of bloodshed and mayhem – but then, as Saint Thomas says, without the violence of tyrants, where would we martyrs be? As Saint Paul wrote of...
Editor's Corner
Adelaide, Netflix, Anathema Sit
Saint Adelaide, whose memorial was yesterday in that broad calendar of the blessed, was the first, and as far as I know only, Empress of the Holy Catholic Empire. As a young girl, in...
Editor's Corner
German and Paglian Scandal
What are we to say of the German bishop’s conference – now well traversed on its own path of ‘synodality’ – which just proclaimed homosexuality, by which we may presume they mean the sin...
Nota in Brevis
Death, Life, Demography and Brexit
Today marks the anniversary of the last two executions in Canada. On this cold December day in 1962, Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin - the former convicted of killing a police informant, the latter...
Editor's Corner
Separez Vous
Besides being the joyful feast of Saint Nicholas, the sixth of December is also the sombre anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre in 1989, which has been commemorated with vigils ever since. Peruse Steyn's...
