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Editor's Corner
Good Pope John
The Second Vatican Council opened on this day in 1962, and ran until 1965, producing sixteen documents, four of them 'constitutions', which have profoundly shaped the Church in the modern world (the title of...
Editor's Corner
The Power of the Rosary
Today is the memorial of the Holy Rosary, a feast instituted by Pope Saint Pius V in commemoration of the Christian naval fleet in the victory at Lepanto on this day in 1571, vastly...
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Weirdness of Vegas and Wildness of Catalonia
Something is definitely odd about the gunman and the shooting massacre in Vegas: A 64 year-old multi-millionaire accountant with no military training, no record, apparently a gambling addict, holed up in a hotel room...
Editor's Corner
What Happened in Vegas?
A gunman in Las Vegas has murdered over fifty people, and seriously injured many more, in an hour long shooting rampage, apparently using a high-powered, high-calibre machine gun, perched 32 storys above the ground...
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Whither the Angels?
The feast of the Archangels, formerly known, and in some circles still is, as the feast of Michaelmas, after the one who is ‘like God’, celebrates those spiritual beings who stand mid-way between Man...
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Lives Noble and Ignoble
Today is the feast of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz (+1637) and his companion martyrs, put to death by the anti-Catholic shogunate in Japan, and who are now patrons of the Philippines. They were tortured in...
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Early Canadian Fortitude
Today, September 26th, is the feast of the Canadian or, if you will, the North American Martyrs. They were all Jesuits, six priests and two lay brothers, put to death for their faith. Five,...
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Signs in the Heavens
Signs, signs, everywhere, signs, blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind...
So sang the Five Man Electrical Band in their 1970 anti-establishment ballad, whose lyrics are clearly anti-signs, at least those that tell you 'what...
