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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. Today’s regular reading, in God’s 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...
Featured
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...
Articles
Wherefore art thou, Modesty?
It may seem a bit odd to speak of modesty when the weather outside is frightful—at least roundabout where I live in rural Ontario. But modesty is not just an outdoors virtue, as a trip...
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...
