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Nota in Brevis
Cardinal Pell’s Innocence and Collegial Guilt
As justice has it, each of us deserves his day in court, and should be deemed innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. But such does not always ensure justice is done. That is why...
Book
Brother John: A Monk, A Pilgrim, and the Purpose of Life
August Turak has written a delightful little book – and by ‘little’, I mean the term in a way similar to Christ’s usage of the term, humble, simple, without much in the way of...
Editor's Corner
Frances of Rome and the Taoiseach of Ireland
In the most troubled of times, God raises up saints as exemplars and intercessors, and Frances of Rome is no exception. Born into privilege in 1384, she lived through tumultuous times, with Rome ravaged...
Editor's Corner
Will a Real Women’s Day Please Stand Up?
I am all for honouring women, but International Women’s Day – which I am at least glad to read they have not (yet?) modified to ‘Womxn’s’ Day – is an international disaster. Born at...
Editor's Corner
The Ultimate Gift of Perpetua and Felicity
Today is also the feast – a commemoration now, in the Lenten calendar of the Novus Ordo – of the early martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, put to death likely in the year 203. This...
Editor's Corner
Thomas’ Enduring Legacy
Today is the anniversary of the death of Saint Thomas Aquinas. In March of 1274, he fell ill on his way to the second Council of Lyons, and so retired to the Cistercian monastery of...
Editor's Corner
Post Pirates
If I may be permitted a personal post-play reflection, a few words on Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College’s production and adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance this last weekend, which went...
Nota in Brevis
The Innocent Cardinal and the Plagiarizing Priest?
The Cardinal Pell saga continues, with his own lawyer now apparently conceding some sort of truth to the decades-old offences, while George Weigel offers strong evidence that Cardinal Pell’s innocence, which His eminence has...
