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Nota in Brevis
2019 Dystopia, Papal Pilgrimage and Super Bowls
I just read that 2019 was the futuristic year – at least in relative terms – in which the films Blade Runner (1982) and The Running Man (1987) were set, both envisioning dystopic futures...
Editor's Corner
Sample’s Quiet Revolution
Liturgical music. The phrase may instil a faint feeling of nausea in those even remotely attuned to true beauty, as the strains of treacly hymns, and worse, of the past half-century drift into our...
Nota in Brevis
Terror, Thomas and Abortion
Another Islamic bombing, one that adds sacrilege to sacrifice, as the target were participants in Sunday Mass at the cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the southern Philippines. At least twenty dead,...
Editor's Corner
The True Ecumenism of Saint Francis de Sales
In this week of prayer for Christian unity, I have an article on the Toronto archdiocesan webpage – or more like a few brief answers to questions – on the life of Saint Francis...
Articles
Notre Dame de Pontmain, Mother of Hope
Besides being the universal memorial of Saint Anthony, Abbot and Desert Father, one of the primary founders of monasticism – especially of the eremitical variety, the way of hermits, who live solitary lives of...
Editor's Corner
Snakes in Paradise
Did a snake really wash - or swim - ashore in Ireland – a land that, according to pious tradition, has been without the slithering serpents since the time of Saint Patrick in the fifth...
Editor's Corner
Will Real Evil Please Stand Up?
I am still wondering about the case of Father John McCloskey, the popular – or once popular - Opus Dei priest, responsible for numerous famous conversions, including former abortionist Bernard Nathanson – now charged...
Nota in Brevis
Modesty and Monetary Miasma
I am more and more convinced that the scandals plaguing our Church and society, and the salvation of the world, depends far more upon individual, personal virtue than on any plan, committee, policies, safeguards,...
