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Editor's Corner
Alberta Votes, and We Hope She Votes Wisely
The province of Alberta votes tomorrow, and, while not unduly influencing the democratic process â for do we not influence to some extent, even by prayer? â here are some thoughts.
The choice in Canada,...
Editor's Corner
Saint Rita’s Mission Impossible
A fitting thought on this vigil day of Pentecost is that nothing is impossible with God. Did not Christ promise that He would grant anything asked for in the name of the Father? As...
Editor's Corner
Musings on the March
The March for Life was in many ways, as always, a rousing success â thousands of zealous pro-lifers of all ages and all walks of life coming together to witness to the dignity and...
Editor's Corner
The Place and Purpose of Private Revelation
On this memorial of Our Lady of Fatima, it is perhaps requisite to say a few words about revelation - A reader wrote recently that Catholics spend too much time on private sort, and...
Nota in Brevis
Did de Niro Really Just Become a âDad’?
Actor Robert de Niro, a septuagenarian on the cusp of octogenarianhood (he turns 80 in August) has just fathered a child. We may use that term advisedly, for âfatheringâ implies something for humans it...
Editor's Corner
Society, Integrating, Disintegrating, Now and Hereafter
Our society is fragmenting, a tragic process accelerated of late, and it is incumbent on us to maintain some level of social cohesion, to reflect on what it means to âbelongâ to any given...
Editor's Corner
The Human Spirit Vincit Omnia
On this day, May 8, in 1978, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler stood on the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest, at 29,031.7 feet. To get any higher, youâd have to fly. Everest...
Nota in Brevis
The Barrier of Bannister’s Mile
On May 6th, 1954, on a make-do track field in Oxford, in windy and blustery conditions, medical student Roger Bannister broke what some thought was the unbreakable barrier of the four-minute mile. Paced for...
