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Liturgy and an Update
Anthony Esolen captures in a vivid and clear way what is wrong with the manner in which the Novus Ordo Mass is usually celebrated: Quodlibet-ally, as we might put it, or, as he does,...
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Catholic Glasgow
On an intersection in Scotland’s largest city, at Glasgow Cross, the Jesuit priest Saint John Ogilvie, after brutal tortures by the ‘King’s Men’ in 1615 (one of which was keeping him awake for nine...
Editor's Corner
Singing, Sex-Ed and Louis and Zelie Martin
Paula Adamick in her article today, in her usual vivid way, connects the cultural trajectory from the ‘long, hot summer’ of 1968 to the one we are experiencing now a half-century in 2018, which...
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Of Benedict and the Conservative Option
A blessed feast of Saint Benedict to all our readers! Although the whole monastic tradition predates him by several centuries, going back to such early figures as Pachomius and Anthony, Benedict did write the most...
Nota in Brevis
Of Pilgrimage
I have an article published on Crisis magazine, on the spiritual purpose, even the necessity, of ‘pilgrimage’, which take various forms, from the explicit walking journey, through hills and vales, to the more ordinary...
Articles
On Martyrdom and True Religious Freedom
Carl Sundell has a very a propos article today in Catholic Insight on the remarkable Frank Sheed (+1982), a Catholic lay apologist who emphasized the need of a properly formed intellect not just to...
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Doubting Thomas and the Nature of Faith
Today is the feast of Saint Thomas, the Apostle, who gets a bit of a bad rap as 'doubting' Thomas, a term is that needs a bit of refining (and I see it often...
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Oh, Canada, Philosophy, Law and Global Warming
Well, another ‘Canada Day’ has come and gone, celebrating the founding of this Dominion in 1867, which achieved further ‘liberation’, if one wants to use that term, from Britain in 1982 with our 'Charter'...
