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Editor's Corner
Saint Edith Stein’s Witness to the Cross
Edith Stein (+ 1942) was a brilliant philosopher, earning her doctorate summa cum laude in August of 1916 on the problem of empathy - understanding the suffering of others. Fitting, for she came into in the...
Nota in Brevis
Lessons From Thalidomide
(Some thoughts from a few years ago, in the midst of the Covidian panic, with a lesson from an heroic Canadian physiologist which bears repeating, for history repeats itself, and we must learn therefrom).
On...
Editor's Corner
Trois Jours au QuĂŠbec – Three Days in Quebec
Quebec is a paradox, much like France, whose offshoot she is. So Catholic on the outside: majestic churches towering over the countryside and cities, place names evoking saints and a bygone era, and even...
Nota in Brevis
Pèlerinage en Quebec
I am currently on pilgrimage through Quebec, la belle province, which is still so 'Catholic', at least on the outside, with many signs of the true Faith still here and there in the secular...
Editor's Corner
Revolution, Paris and the Olympics
The French Revolution casts a long shadow. It seems the generational guilt in casting off the 'shackles' of the Church, which entailed also the rejection of the moral law and of God Himself, has...
Editor's Corner
Science, Pseudoscience…and Miracles
One of the key differences between science and pseudoscience, according to Karl Popper, was falsifiability. Science, properly speaking, presents hypotheses that can be tested, while pseudoscience always tries to find a âway outâ, explaining...
Editor's Corner
Saint Apollinaris of Ravenna
The See of Ravenna â on the north-east coast of Italy â was once, way back in the Middle Ages, nearly on par with Rome in terms of its ecclesiastical stature. Of course, Rome...
Editor's Corner
Same-Sex Marriage Contra Naturam
(As the first line of this reflection I wrote a few years ago states, Canada legalized so-called 'same-sex' marriage on this July 20th, back in 2005. As implied herein, once we remove the foundation...
