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Editor's Corner
Of Quagmires and Roses
So President Donald Trump has decided to up the ante in Afghanistan, sending in an as-yet undefined number of troops, with no timeline, no apparent budget, but with some 'targets' that they must reach,...
Nota in Brevis
The True Treasure of the Church
A blessed and joyful feast of Saint Lawrence to all, one of the very few non-Apostolic saints to be honoured with a full 'feast'. A deacon under Pope Sixtus in 258 A.D., Lawrence was...
Editor's Corner
You’ve Been Googled
James Damore, an engineer at Google (or should I say former engineer at Google) was fired recently for sending around a memo criticizing his company's diversity campaign, aimed particularly at getting more women in engineering...
Editor's Corner
Sixtus II, Pope and Martyr
A blessed memorial of Pope Saint Sixtus II and Companion Martyrs, who were beheaded along with six of his deacons in witness to the Faith, on the sixth of August, in the year of...
Editor's Corner
The Cure of Ars: A Model for Priests
On this day, August 4th, in 1859, the world witnessed the passing into eternity of a most remarkable man, a simple country priest, who lived and worked at the same parish for 41 years,...
Editor's Corner
Of Irenicism and Arachnids
I have been asked by a reader to comment on two recent Ottawa-related themes:
The first is our Prime Minister's participation in the rites and rituals of other faiths, and by 'other', I mean other...
Editor's Corner
Bach’s Musical Offering
Today marks the 267th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, who passed into eternity this day in 1750, after a rather barbaric and unsuccessful attempt at eye surgery to heal his progressive...
Editorials
Saint James and the Reconquista
Before we leave Saint James the Greater and polygamy behind for now, two further factoids that came across my attention: It seems the Mormons claim in their own tradition that the same very James,...
