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Of Work and Communists Bearing Gifts
In his 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens, Pope John Paul II defined work as 'any activity of man', contrary to our modern notion, so immersed in what we might call 'productive' labour. Yet, as the Pope...
Editor's Corner
Saint Joseph, A Working Man
(A reprise of an article I published last year on this memorial of the great Saint Joseph...)
Saint Joseph has two 'feast' days in the universal Church, neither of which is technically a 'feast'. The...
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Population Control, Royalty and Fighting the Good Fight
Paula Adamick's article on the socialist and anti-Christian philosophy behind 'Earth Day', celebrated, if such be the term, on the birthday of Lenin himself, as well as her take on the whole environmentalist agenda,...
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Anselm, Show Trials and Truth
Saint Anselm (+1109) was bishop of the see of Canterbury, back when it was still Catholic, and remained officially so until the predations of the Tudors, the descendants of Henry VIII. Yet, Anselm had...
Editor's Corner
Blessed Blondin and Bureaucracy
Bd. Marie-Anne Blondin (+1890), whose feast was just the other day, and of whom you may never have heard, founded a religious congregation of Sisters to teach young people in Quebec, most of whom...
Nota in Brevis
Missiles, the Unsinkable Titanic and the Liturgy of Emmaus
President Trump has launched a retaliatory missile attack on Syria, in response to Bashar al Assad supposedly ‘gassing’ his own people, in his own attempt to crush the ‘rebel’ forces, connected inextricably with radical...
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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...
