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Editor's Corner
The Mauling of Dahl
Roald Dahl (+1990) is being mauled, along with Dr. Seuss (+1991), and, as the Cat in the Hat might declare, we should be appalled, galled, palled, if not stonewalled. On the Ginsu chopping block...
Editor's Corner
Marriage, Divorce and Seeking Happiness
The old joke has it that Milton wrote Paradise Lost after he got married; and when his wife died, he penned the sequel, Paradise Found.
In joco veritas. The joke is only funny â if...
Editor's Corner
Pretense at Saint John Lateran
Pretense:
 A false appearance or action intended to deceive.
 A professed but feigned reason or excuse; a pretext.
Something imagined or pretended. (https://www.wordnik.com/words/pretense)
What term does one use for what happened at the cathedral of...
Editor's Corner
Saint George, Shakespeare and the Millennium
Today is a national holiday in England - as they commemorate the semi-legendary Saint George, martyr for the Faith, slayer of the dragon and rescuer of princesses. This is also, by one of those...
Nota in Brevis
Brian Boru, Charles and James
On this day in 1014, at the Battle of Clontarf, just outside Dublin, the great high king of Ireland, Brian Boru, died in battle against the Vikings - a Good Friday that year, alas....
Nota in Brevis
Mr. Weigel’s Inconsistent Proportionalism
George Weigel just posted an impassioned condemnation of the moral error of proportionalism - that the overall good of any moral decision is the final determinant of the course of action to be chosen,...
Reviews
Venantius’ Vexilla Regis Prodeunt
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus was a self-described wandering minstrel in Europe of the very early Middle Ages, or late Antiquity, or the inaptly-described 'Dark Ages', which in fact had much that was light about...
Editor's Corner
The Salvific Power of Beauty
Dostoyevsky wrote, through the voice of Prince Myskin in his novel, The Idiot, that âbeauty would save the worldâ.
I have often wondered about that quotation, and whether it be true. A number of years...
