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Editor's Corner
The Holy House of Loreto
The memorial of Lady of Loreto was put back into the universal calendar, on this day by Pope Francis in December, 2019, in those halcyonic months just before the tsunami of Covid-insanity hit the...
Editor's Corner
Saint Juan Diego, Hidden Keeper of the Tilma
Amare nesciri - 'love to be unknown' - exhorted Saint Philip Neri (+1595), founder of the Oratorians, who himself was an unknown young tutor in Florence, living in a loft, in the early 16th...
Editor's Corner
I am the Immaculate Conception
Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou - I am the Immaculate Conception
These are the words Our Lady said to Saint Bernadette Sobirous, which she spoke in the local French patois, when the young saint asked...
Nota in Brevis
Would the Real Saint Nicholas Please Stand Up?
Saint Nicholas of Myra (+343) has gone down in legend in more ways than one. His general story follows below, but through the years has developed into the genial 'Santa Claus', the rotund, cherubic...
Editor's Corner
The Legendary Saint Barbara
As Hilaire Belloc notes, a legend does not imply something isn't true; rather, it signifies some primordial truth so important that is has been preserved, even embellished. In this light, we should see the...
Editor's Corner
Xavier’s Fire for God and for Souls
Saint Francis Xavier – the relic of whose forearm, instrumental in the baptizing of tens of thousands made a tour around Canada a number of years ago – was one of those remarkable men...
Editor's Corner
Nicene and the Filioque
This year marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, which first promulgated the creed that goes by its name. As the recent Apostolic Letter of Pope Leo, In Unitate Fidei, the council...
Nota in Brevis
Edmund Campion’s English Optimism
Today, on this first day of December, we call to mind Saint Edmund Campion – see Avellina Ballestri’s fine recounting of his glorious life from the archives - one of the most charming in the...
