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Blogs
For a Few More Medical Moscatis
April 12th marked the anniversary of the death of Saint Joseph Moscati, an Italian physician, who dedicated his life to helping the sick and the poor, often giving them money along with their prescriptions, taking...
Nota in Brevis
Of Courageous Bishops and FaceBook
We celebrate Saint Stanislaus today (+ April 11, 1079), bishop and martyr, put to death by his own king, Boleslaus, for rebuking the monarch's 'immoral life'. The details are rather obscure and disputed, but...
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The Mercy of Hell?
So, what of hell? As you may have heard, and on which I wrote a few days ago, Pope Francis has allegedly (through the perhaps hazy recollection of Eugenio Scalfari after an untranscribed interview)...
Nota in Brevis
Of Unforeseen Tragedies
On the note of suffering, even in the midst of this Easter joy, which in this vale of tears is still mingled with sorrow, at times most poignant and tragic:
Last night, a bus carrying...
Editor's Corner
Christ and the Resurrected Body
We are now on the seventh day of the Easter Octave, eight days that are one long, glorious day, so this Friday is treated as a full solemnity, a Sunday, a day to rejoice...
Nota in Brevis
On Fiscal Restraint and Pope John Paul II
A blessed and joyous Easter to all our readers! Christus surrexit vere, alleluia! I will have an article soon on the resurrection, but first, and in contrast to the joy of this octave of...
Nota in Brevis
On Hell, Debts and Incorruptibility
A blessed and joyful Holy Saturday to all our readers, a day in which all the world is ‘at rest’, with Christ, our God, asleep in the tomb, awaiting His definitive resurrection, and triumph...
Editor's Corner
The Mystery of Salvific Suffering
Last week, a fire broke out in a mall, located in Kemerovo, a remote city in Siberia, on a day that happened to be the beginning of family holiday time, killing 64 people. The...
