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Editor's Corner
Mother Cabrini’s Lasting Legacy
In the United States, November 13th is the memorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, or 'Mother Cabrini' (1850 - 1917) as she came to be known. From her earliest years, she was drawn to...
Editor's Corner
Might a Pope Be Deposed?
On November 6th in 963, Emperor Otto I called a council in Rome, which condemned and then deposed Pope John XII, on charges that the pontiff had staged an âarmed rebellionâ against the emperor....
Editor's Corner
Saint Leonard of Noblac – or Limoges
Not much is known about today's saint, who, by what accounts we have, died in 559 A.D. And those accounts date only from the 11th century. He was apparently converted under the reign of...
Editor's Corner
Clarifying One’s Christian Duty
A recent reflection in First Things warns against sacralising politics (or politicizing the sacred), and rightly so. As the prophet Jeremiah warns: cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the LORD...
Editor's Corner
Choosing Wisely
Election - from the Latin 'eligere - to choose'.
Choose life, that you and your children may live (Dt 30:19)
The core battle of our time is over life and family, as warned Sister Lucia and...
Editor's Corner
The Surreality of Reality
Things are surreal, and getting more so by the minute - or so it goes. In the first minute or so of his interview with Elon Musk, Donald Trump describes the recent attempt to...
Reviews
Exogenesis: A Review
Exogenesis, by Peco Gaskovksi
Ignatius Press, 2023
ISBN/UPC:Â 9781621646341
One of the most difficult things in writing a âfantasyâ â any story which is not based on this present world â is constructing a realistic and believable âother...
Articles
Canada Up in Smoke
(A retrospect on the legalization of cannabis in Canada, now six (!) years ago. The stultifying and enervating effects of this drug may in some small part explain why so many Canadians went so...
