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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 ‘Dad’?
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 ‘fathering’ 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 ‘belong’ 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, you’d 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...
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 – 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...
