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Editor's Corner
Mater Ecclesiae in Ordinary Time
We celebrate today the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, an ancient title of the Virgin, which was formally instituted into the Holy Mass and the Litany of Loreto by Paul VI during...
Editor's Corner
An Irish Monk in Scotland
If it 'twere not Pentecost Sunday - the second highest liturgical celebration in the Church's calendar (see Pater Ignotus' reflection), and a blessed one indeed to all our readers - we would ordinarily celebrate...
Nota in Brevis
Controlling Truth
On the canary in the coalmine files, one headline declared that web traffic for the Daily Mail decreased by 50% after Google ‘tweaked’ its algorithm, an ominous sign of the totalitarian control over the...
Editor's Corner
75 Since D-Day
This is the milestone of 75 years since so-called D-Day landings at Normandy, when 150,000 soldiers – many of them young and untested - of various nations on the Allied side stormed the beaches...
Nota in Brevis
Norbert and Normandy
Saint Norbert (+1134) was a zealous bishop and founder, at the forefront of the ecclesial reform named after Pope Gregory VII, Hildebrand, who was its initial impetus. Norbert was born ten years before the...
Editor's Corner
The Donar Oak, Europe and Boniface
Saint Boniface, bishop and martyr, was hacked to death by a group of idol-worshippers on this day, June 5, 754. His life was one of tireless struggle to convert the Frisians, early inhabitants of...
Editor's Corner
The Visitation, Baby Saybie and our Neo Barbarism
A blessed feast of the Visitation, one that goes back to the Middle Ages, when it was originally celebrated on the octave after the Birth of Saint John the Baptist, July 2nd. The feast...
Editor's Corner
Ascension and the Maid of Orleans
In the universal Church, this is the feast of the Ascension, celebrated forty days after the Resurrection, on which we begin the most ancient novena in our tradition, the nine days to the coming...
