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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...
Editor's Corner
Louis and Zelie Martin’s Ecclesia Domestica
July 12th is the day chosen as the feast of the parents of the 'Little Flower', for which Louis and Zelie Martin are most renowned. They were, however, saints in their own right, and raised...
Editor's Corner
Reveling in Death
Ellen Wiebe loves her job. I would call her a 'doctor', for she is technically qualified as a physician. But since her job is primarily killing people, as Jonathon van Maren points out, especially...
Editor's Corner
The Unbalanced Power Dynamics of Michel Foucault
We can learn much from those with whom we disagree, even on the most fundamental issues. Extrema se tangunt, goes the Latin proverb - extremes touch each other. Nietzsche is eminently quotable, and his...
Editor's Corner
The Martyrs of Gorkum and Annulled Anne of Cleves
In one of those many mysteries of providence, this day marking the martyrs of China is also the anniversary of the Martyrs of Gorkum, nineteen Catholic priests, diocesan and religious, hanged on this day...
