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Book
Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile
I just finished reading Joseph Pearce’s biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, subtitled ‘A Soul in Exile’, a remarkable book, packing a very full life into a very readable pages, showing what the indomitable will of...
Editor's Corner
John of Damascus, Defender of Icons and the Last of the Eastern Fathers
Was there ever a golden age of Catholic and Islamic relations? The evidence for such is slim, with the two religions seemingly incompatible and irreconcilable - after all, they both want to convert everyone...
Editor's Corner
IVF and Adopting Embryos
I was waiting for it, as I listened to a recent pro-life talk I attended, the topic of which was IVF: I had an inkling the presenter would raise the fractious issue of ‘adopting’...
Editor's Corner
Hamburg, Hiroshima and Hamas: Innocents in War and the Dignity of Human Life
On October 11, 1649, the troops of Oliver Cromwell, who was then 'Lord Protector of England', stormed the besieged village of Wexford, Ireland. The soldiers killed indiscriminately, leaving 1600 dead. This was par for...
Editor's Corner
‘Our Lady of Public Health’
On this feast of Saint Luke, physician and healer, it is a propos that we post a link to a series of insightful and intriguing essays on our health-and-safety obsessed world, by the doughty...
Nota in Brevis
How Really to Remember Senator Feinstein
For what should Senator Diane Feinstein, who died recently at the advanced age of 91 after a long - some might say far too long - career in politics, be remembered? Most of us...
Editor's Corner
Gregorian Chant: Music for Soul, Body, and God
I recently read a short (152 pages) and small book (each page is 5” by 6”), with beautiful font, and a fittingly short title, Chant, by Katherine le Mée, published in 1994. But don’t...
Editor's Corner
Crushing Dissent
The punishing penal sentences meted to two groups of protestors - a group of pro-lifers who blocked an abortuary, as well as those who wandered through the Capitol on 'January 6' - are indicative:...
