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Editor's Corner
Childless Despair and Childlike Hope
This rather sad article recounts the growing movement of deliberate childlessness, in the United States, and beyond. Or, as those in the movement like to call themselves, ‘child-free’, to remove any connotations that being...
Nota in Brevis
A New Archbishop, and a Mystery Solved
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Bishop Michael Mulhall – who has led the diocese of Pembroke since 2007, wherein I and the College at which I teach both happen to reside – has been appointed by Pope Francis, as...
Editor's Corner
Rediscovering Sacred Limits
Is the attack
on Edmonton priest Father Marcin
Maroniuk, following hot on the heels of the knifing of the rector of
the Montreal Oratory, another anomaly, or a sign of worse things to come? The
assailant ‘smelled of...
Nota in Brevis
Kissing Rings and Boxing Rings
The Holy Father has just completed his one-day pilgrimage to the Holy House of Loreto. As tradition has it – not of divine faith, but small-t ‘tradition’ – this is the original house of...
Editor's Corner
Mary’s Hope
A blessed solemnity of the Annunciation, which commemorates
the central feast of the Incarnation – the Word made flesh - the conception of
the Son of God in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, freely chosen by...
Editor's Corner
Persecution Rising
The rector of Saint Joseph’s Oratory, Father Claude Grou, was attacked during Mass the other day, as a ‘tall, thin man in a white hat’ – which sounds like something out of a mystery...
Editor's Corner
The Evil Behind a Boondoggle Budget
The most apt adjective to describe the Liberal ‘budget’ – and I use that term advisedly - is meretricious, a term that means doing something superficially attractive, but devoid of real substance. Its etymology...
