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Editor's Corner
Saint Caecilia’s Heavenly Music
We have to wait to hear what heavenly music sounds like, but Saint Francis de Sales once recounted that he was blessed to hear an angel played one note on a violin – of...
Featured Highlights
Our Lady’s Presentation, and the Perfect Gift of Self
The Presentation of Mary – commemorating Our Lady’s dedication and consecration to God as a young girl of about three years old in the Temple – is found in none of the four traditional...
Editor's Corner
Francis, Leo and ‘Climate Change’
We’ve written before of the story that Pope Pius XII wanted to use the theory of the ‘Big Bang’ – first proposed by the priest Father Georges Lemaitre in 1929 – in an encyclical...
Nota in Brevis
Hot Air Hypocrisy
Irony may be defined as something that goes against expectation, especially radically so. It is the basis of much of literature and films – the small guy who defeats the far larger opponent. David...
Editor's Corner
Dedication of the Basilicas of Peter, Paul – and the Path to Rome
Today's memorial marks the dedication of the basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul - following upon that of the Lateran Basilica last week. More specifically, this is the anniversary of the consecration of the...
Editor's Corner
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
The saint today is one of the patrons of Hungary, Elizabeth (+1320), the niece of Saint Hedwig of Silesia, (+1243) whom we celebrated in October. Elizabeth belongs to the '24' club - saints who...
Nota in Brevis
Saints Margaret of Scotland and Gertrude of Germany
Beautiful bonnie 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...
Nota in Brevis
A Significant Insouciance
If the reader wants a significant moment in the history of the Church in America, ponder the insouciant non-reaction from the assembled bishops to the intervention by the exiled Bishop Strickland, pointing out the...
