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Nota in Brevis
Amoris Laetitia, Global Greed, and Warming Up
*The Holy Father's Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia is now promulgated. I have only read the first few pages, wherein the Pope advises us to read the document "patiently and carefully". At over 200...
Editor's Corner
Ant-Man vs. Daredevil
(As a bit of light-hearted reading before the issuance of the Holy Father’s Apostolic Letter later today, here are some thoughts on two superheroes, such as they are. Editor).
Yes, I must admit, I did...
Articles
Mercy: Divine and Human, True and False
(The following is an address I offered yesterday at Saint Hedwig's Church for the Divine Mercy celebration. Editor)
This being the Year of Mercy, decreed by Pope Francis, as well as Divine Mercy Sunday, as...
Nota in Brevis
Legislators, P.E.I. and Lust in the Classroom
A blessed Easter Octave Friday, which liturgically is a Sunday. There is an old adage about a 'month of Sundays', but the Catholic Church really does have a week of Sundays after the Solemnity...
Editor's Corner
Our Unsupportable Medical Utopia
I met an acquaintance of mine recently in one of local stores (of course, government run) that sells liquid cheer, to refresh the weary soul after a long Lent. He was there to buy...
Editor's Corner
The Beauty of Suffering: Salvifici Doloris
In, 1984, Pope Saint John Paul II penned an Apostolic Letter on the mystery of human suffering, Salvifici Doloris (curiously, now looking back, the same year he made his first apostolic journey to Canada). ...
Editor's Corner
Of Bombs, Budget and Bombast
*Our prayers go out for all the victims and, yes, the perpetrators of yesterday's attacks in Belgium. We are up against a determined enemy, willing to kill, and to die, for their disordered cause. ...
Nota in Brevis
Of Depravity and Bullying
*A blessed solemnity of Saint Joseph to one and all!
*To paraphrase the words of the great American Justice, Robert Bork, we slouch each day closer to Gomorrah. Louise Ciccone, the woman otherwise unfortunately known...
