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Editor's Corner
Saint Anthony and Our Lady
There is a curious connection with today’s memorial of Saint Anthony of Padua, the place in Italy where he died (in 1231), for he is also known as Saint Anthony of Lisbon, the place...
Editor's Corner
An Irish Monk in Scotland
We celebrate in our particular diocese today the feast of Saint Columbkille (521-597), an Irish monk from Donegal on the wild west coast of the emerald isle, whose Gaelic name means 'dove of the...
Articles
Tattoo You?
An interesting factoid I recently came across, one borne out by anecdotal evidence, is that 3 out of 10 Americans now have tattoos, and I presume that number to be at least as high...
Nota in Brevis
Anti-Catholicism, Hollywood, and ISIS
If you are interested in an unmasking of the deep anti-Catholic bias in Hollywood, feel free to peruse an article of mine this morning in Crisis, which uses last year's Captain Fantastic as a...
Editor's Corner
Manchester, Muhammad and Trumping Ali
Britain stumbles into another election, this one in the wake of yet-another terrorist attack on the Vigil of Pentecost, with three Islamic jihadis mowing down pedestrians strolling down iconic London Bridge, before stabbing and...
Nota in Brevis
Saint Boniface
Saint Boniface, bishop and martyr, was martyred by a pagan band on this day, June 5, 754. His life was one of tireless struggle to convert the Frisians, early inhabitants of Germania, steeped in...
Nota in Brevis
That in Me You May Have Peace
A very joyful, blessed and grace-filled Pentecost to all of our readers...
In the midst of all the travails of this world, let us entrust ourselves to the Holy Spirit, Who moves all of us...
Editor's Corner
Skeptical Trump and the Paris Accord
I for one find it encouraging news that Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the Paris Accord, whose official term is the Paris Agreement, which falls under the United Nations Convention...
