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Editor's Corner
Saints Peter Chanel and Louis Grignon de Montfort
On this 28th of April we celebrate two Saints: Saint Peter Chanel (+1841) who evangelized the island of Futuna in the South Pacific - the first to bring the Gospel to a people who had...
Articles
Our Lady’s Good Counsel
Our Lady of Good Counsel - Mater Boni Consilii - is one of the many titles of the Virgin Mary, this one dating back indirectly to the 5th century, when Pope Sixtus III provided...
Editor's Corner
The Urgent Gospel of Saint Mark
Saint Mark, writer of the Gospel and first bishop of Alexandria, was the missionary companion and amanuensis of Saint Peter, the first pope. The third-century theologian Saint Hippolytus (and repentant anti-Pope) claims that Mark...
Nota in Brevis
Saint Fidelis’ Last and Greatest Sermon
Today is - or would be, prescinding from this glorious week of Solemnities - the feast of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, (+1622) whose original name was Mark Rey: 'Sigmaringen' was...
Editor's Corner
George, Shakespeare, Brian Boru: England, Ireland and the Fighting Catholic Spirit
Today used to be (*) a national holiday in England - as the people hearken back to an earlier and better time in the now tragically declined, if not lost, nation. For today is...
Editor's Corner
Popes and Martyrs, Marriage and Montanism
Today’s commemoration of saints are all connected with the persecution The first group suffered under the Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius in the mid-2nd century, particularly as it raged in the then-Roman city of Lyons...
Editor's Corner
Is the SSPX in Full Communion? A Reply to Timothy Flanders
Over at OnePeterFive, editor T.S. Flanders urges us all to charity and not to 'excommunicate' each other (perhaps we might say 'shun'). It's a worthy endeavour, but therein he makes the following claim:
in year...
Nota in Brevis
Saint Kateri, Canada’s Protectress
This was the title given to Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, by Pope Benedict XVI, when he canonized her on October 28th, 2012, along with six others, in Saint Peter' Square (she had been beatified by...
