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Editor's Corner
Election Day: Are We Headed for Venezuela?
It will all be over later today, one way or the other, after a bizarre and unenviable election process: The United States of America, still the greatest economic and military force on the planet,...
Articles
Honour and Ambition: Thoughts on the Requirements for Political Office
Politics is a curious business, and not just in the United States the Big Day approaches: Here in Ontario, Canada, about a four hour drive from where I live, a nineteen year old Brock...
Editor's Corner
Beware Bagpiping Scotsmen
A bag piping Scotsman was recently fined in Montreal for carrying an 'illegal weapon', namely, his sgian-duh, literally his 'black', but more properly his 'hidden' knife, tucked into his thick Highland socks. I wondered...
Nota in Brevis
Deacon Jean-Nil Chabot, Ph. D, responds to my most recent editorial:
Generally speaking I would not differ from what you wrote, but I will express my opinion (no, I say, the truth!) regarding moving Canada’s debt to the...
Nota in Brevis
A blessed All Souls to all.
Over the next eight days, you may gain a plenary indulgence for visiting a cemetery and praying for the dead, with the usual conditions.
All the faithful departed, requiescant in...
Editor's Corner
Conservative, Liberal, Vive la Difference?
I have an article on the 'requirements for political office, posted this morning on Crisis magazine. Again, feel free to peruse, and I will post it here in a few days.
And speaking of ambition,...
Editor's Corner
The Providence of Earthquakes
There was another earthquake in Italy the other day (October 30th), in the town of Norcia, the birthplace of Saint Benedict, where
there are a group of Benedictines, men and women's Orders, that adhere...
Editor's Corner
L’Arche, Pronouns and Police
L'Arche, the community founded by Jean Vanier, has clarified his ambiguous comments upon euthanasia, upon which I wrote a few months ago. You can read their brief, one page comments here, and make up...
