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Editor's Corner
Bibiana and All the Single Ladies
Saint Bibiana, who is commemorated today, a virgin martyred during the reign of Julian the Apostate, is the patroness of single laywomen, amongst her other heavenly duties (she is also invoked, for reasons I...
Editor's Corner
Andrew’s Shame and Main Chance
To paraphrase Richard Weaver’s dictum about ideas, sin too has consequences, some of them abrupt and awful, such as murder and suicide; while the deleterious effects of other sins, the more hidden variety usually,...
Nota in Brevis
Supernatural Monarchy
A blessed solemnity of Christ the King to all our readers, a feast first instituted by Pope Pius XI, with his encyclical Quas Primas (December 11, 1925), well worth a read through. Prior to...
Editor's Corner
Mammon’s Morbid Might
The conviction of David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress is a tragic one for the pro-life cause. As you may have read, they were found guilty of exposing, in an undercover sting...
Editor's Corner
Pro, Clement and Columbanus
November 23rd is another of those triptych saint days, with three on offer to lift our spirits as we approach Christ the King, Advent and the beginning of a new liturgical year.
Saint Clement of...
Editor's Corner
Margaret of Scotland and Gertrude of Germania
Saint Margaret of Scotland (+1093) was the devoted wife of Malcom III, King of the nation to which she fled as a fetching young royal English lass. Her family had been exiled from England,...
Nota in Brevis
Lateran Basilica and ‘Catholic’ Schools
The feast of the dedication of 'Saint John Lateran' commemorates the primary church in Christendom, the 'mother and head' of all other churches, the Holy Father's own cathedral, tracing its lineage back to Constantine,...
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Pagan Idolatry and Catholic Fortitude
A writer must at times take back, or at least re-form, opinions once vaguely and lightly and perhaps too hastily held. Even the great Augustine and Newman wrote their retractions. All part of that...
