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Editor's Corner
Minors and Majors
The Vatican synod currently underway has as its theme the âprotection of minorsâ, a category that in our current intellectual milieu triggers a vivid emotional response; for what comes to mind are little children...
Editor's Corner
Saint Peter’s Cathedra
It might seem odd to celebrate a 'chair', even one of Saint Peter, but today's feast commemorates not a physical object, but the office of the papacy bestowed upon the Apostle Simon, whom Christ christened Peter...
Nota in Brevis
The Truth of Synods and Conquistadors
Blaise Cardinal Cupich has denied any link between homosexuality and the sexual abuse crisis, and that the upcoming synod will not only not focus on the former, but will not even mention the sin...
Nota in Brevis
The Lustful Elephant in the Room
Of course, as non-rational beings, elephants cannot lust,  but I agree with Julia Meloni that unless the hierarchical powers-that-be realize that the clerical abuse crisis is much more than a question of victimized âminorsâ, not...
Nota in Brevis
Manifesting Holiness
Cardinal Muellerâs Manifesto continues to create quite the stir, opening up what seems be a deep division within the Vatican. What that division signifies has itself yet to be clarified, but it has something...
Nota in Brevis
Suffering and Contending Cardinals
A blessed memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, the World Day of the Sick, on which I posted a few words in an editorial. Todayâs regular reading, in Godâs good providence, corresponds with the...
Nota in Brevis
Humpty Dumpty, Revolutions and Two Saints
In one of the many ironies of this Humpty Dumpty age where words no longer mean what they are meant to mean, but only what people want them to mean, the Boy Scouts will...
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Blackface or Blackheart?
Minstrelsy has a rather long and convoluted history, its origin with a singing group of white men from Virginia - the Virginia Minstrels - who in the innocent days of 1843 decided to  darken...
