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Editor's Corner
Barnabites, Civil Wars and Confusing Synods
Saint Anthony Zaccaria (+1539), from noble lineage in late-renaissance Italy, first studied medicine, then for the priesthood, adopting a life of great discipline and zeal, founding the ‘Barnabites’, inspired by the teachings of Saint...
Editor's Corner
The Patronage of Saints
When the Church canonizes some of her faithful as ‘saints’, she is declaring that they lived a Christian life more perfectly, practising charity in an ‘heroic’ way, and this is done for two reasons:...
Blogs
The God of Abraham, Sodom and Canada
Abraham’s dialogue with God in yesterday’s Sunday reading still speaks to us four millennia onwards. Indeed, the principle is timeless, that God’s justice – the natural recompense for sin – is not only tempered...
Blogs
Canada’s Dominion Day
A blessed Dominion Day to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of ‘Canada’ as a (mostly) independent part of the British Commonwealth since the signing into effect of such in...
Editor's Corner
The Persistence of China’s Underground Church
On this solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul – and a blessed one to all our readers - it is good to know that there are still principles for which the Church is willing...
Editor's Corner
Cool Heads and Heat Waves
We should all feel some empathy at the drowning of the father and his 23-month daughter in the Rio Grande. I have not for one seen the photograph of them face down in the...
Articles
Saint Cyril and Our Lady
Today is the traditional feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, signified in one of the most famous ‘icons’ of the Virgin Mother, which, by tradition – legend, some might say – goes back...
Nota in Brevis
Hunchbacks and Hate Crimes
Disturbing, and all-too ironic, that younger humans have ‘horns’ growing out of the back of their skulls, to compensate for bent necks hunching over phones:
New research in biomechanics suggests that young people are developing...
