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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 ‘way out’, explaining...
Editor's Corner
Saint Apollinaris of Ravenna
The See of Ravenna – on the north-east coast of Italy – 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...
Editor's Corner
A Few Words on Infallibility
On this July 18th, 1870, the First Vatican Council, at the impetus of Pope Pius IX, proclaimed the dogma of papal infallibility. Some were against defining the doctrine – including Cardinal Newman. Not that...
Nota in Brevis
Alexius the Beggar
Saint Alex – or Alexius – known as ‘the Beggar’ was a Christian in the early fourth-century, was the son of a Senator, Euphemian, and his wife, Aglae. Fearing the allure of the riches...
Editor's Corner
The Witness of the Carmelites of Compiègne – Le Temoinage des Carmelites de Compiègne
It was on this day in a Parisian summer in 1794 - one day after the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel - that sixteen female members of the Carmelite Order, located at Compiègne –...
Articles
By an Inch: Trump, JP II and Fatima
July 13th was the 107th anniversary of the one of the visions to the children at Fatima, this one concerning hell, the consecration of Russia and the devotion to the Immaculate Heart.
It was also...
