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Editor's Corner
A Mass Schedule in Time Capsule: What Happened?
For these latter days of Lent, I just began reading Father Romano Guardini's Jesus Christus - his 1963 meditation on the life of the Saviour, and a recommended read - when I noticed tucked...
Editor's Corner
Mary’s Fiat
A blessed solemnity of the Annunciation, to all our readers! This feast commemorates the conception of the Son of God in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, freely chosen by the young Hebrew maiden...
Editor's Corner
Dumbed Down and Drugged Up
Intelligence is a difficult thing to define, never mind measure. But we can gain some idea of what 'intelligence' implies - knowledge of fundamental principles; problem solving; analogical reasoning; a smattering of history, geography,...
Nota in Brevis
Dwindling – or is That Dawning – Hope?
George Weigel has always been rather sanguine about the ecclesia moderna. The author of the tome-like biography of John Paul II, Witness to Hope, has turned more elegiac. Back then, at the turn of...
Editor's Corner
15 Minute Cities – Utopian Villages, or Dystopic Hells?
There's much ado of late on '15 minute cities', (FMCs - like everything else now, they have their own acronym) a proposed redesigning of our metropolises, so that the basic amenities - groceries, shops,...
Editor's Corner
Cheating Chat-GPT
In 1950, Alan Turing - one of the inventors of the modern computer, and fresh from helping win the war by designing it to decipher Germany's indecipherable 'Enigma Code' - posited a test that...
Editor's Corner
The Rise – and Fall? – of the Nones
He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.
"When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest;...
Nota in Brevis
Saints Hilary and Cassian
A brief mention of two saints, both of whose commemorations fall on February 29th - the day of their deaths. Hence, on non-leap years they are moved to today, the 28th. I suppose the...
