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Editor's Corner
Assumption and the Resurrection
A blessed and glorious solemnity of the Assumption to one and all! A day commemorating the taking up of the Blessed Virgin Mary, body and soul, into heaven at the end of her earthly...
Saints
Pontian, Hippolytus, Pope and Anti-Pope, Saints Together
An anti-Pope is someone who thinks he's the Pope - or at least who claims to be the Pope - when in reality he is not. And by 'reality', we mean Pope by the...
Editor's Corner
Jane Frances de Chantal and her Visitation
Jane Frances Fremiot (+1641) was a beautiful, refined young woman from Burgundy, betrothed to the handsome Baron de Chantal at 21 years old - a veritable Austen-esque marriage of true minds, in a French...
Nota in Brevis
The Divine Comedy of Saint Lawrence
Today's Saint Lawrence (+258) lives on in the legend of his own divine comedy, a Spaniard from Valencia, chosen in the very bloom of his early maturity by the intelligent and saintly Pope Sixtus...
Editor's Corner
Saint Dominic’s Battle for Truth
Saint Dominic (+1221) was one of those souls destined from birth to do great things - as, we may suppose, all saints are in some way. But all the contemporary accounts attest to his...
Nota in Brevis
Tibbets’ ‘Distinguished Service’ in Death
Eighty year ago, Paul Tibbets flew his B-52 bomber, the 'Enola Gay' - named after his own mother - and dropped the nuclear bomb over Hiroshima. Under his guidance, the 'superfortress' took off in...
Editor's Corner
Saint Cajetan, Founder of the Theatines
On this day, along with Pope Sixtus and his companion martyrs, we honour Saint Gaetano Cajetan (1480-1547), not to be confused with the 'other' Cajetan, whose name was Thomas, a famed commentator on Saint...
Editor's Corner
Pope Sixtus and Companions, Martyrs To the End
Historians count ten traditional persecutions of Christians in the early Church – from the first, under Nero, beginning in 63 A.D. through a series of anti-Christian emperors of various stripes and intensities, culminating in...
