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Editor's Corner
A New Archbishop for Toronto
Pope Francis has appointed a new archbishop for Toronto, Auxiliary Bishop Frank Leo, after accepting the resignation of Thomas Cardinal Collins (Bishops are required to submit a resignation letter to the Pope on their...
Editor's Corner
Benedict XV’s War and Peace
There is a fin de siècle feel in the air, akin to what people must have felt in 1914 on eve of the Great War – which was meant to end all wars. As...
Editor's Corner
Salvifici Doloris: Hope and Joy in Suffering
On the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, back in 1984, Pope Saint John Paul II promulgated an Apostolic Letter on the mystery of human suffering, Salvifici Doloris (the same year he made his...
Editor's Corner
Invoking/Revoking Canon 87
Against the restrictions of Traditionis Custodes and its accompanying draconian dubia, traditionally-minded bishops (would that adjective were superfluous!) always had a recourse in Canon 87.1, which stated that:
A diocesan bishop, whenever he judges that...
Nota in Brevis
Transhumanist Beatitude
When you stop believing in heaven, you're going to make one up, and the fake version always ends up some sort of hell, albeit a subtle and insidious one. We have seen this with...
Editor's Corner
Timothy, Titus and Episcopal Reckoning
A blessed memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, co-workers of Saint Paul, both of them ordained by him into the early episcopacy of the Church, when every bishop was a ‘missionary’, sent forth into...
Editor's Corner
Rinse and Repeat By Rote
Great is the power of constant repetition
So wrote David Foster in his Philosophical Scientists, a slim but powerful treatise dispelling some of the basic mistruths in modern science. Tell a lie often enough to...
Editor's Corner
The Algorithm of the Antichrist
What form will the antichrist take? Our Catholic tradition holds that he will be man, filled with evil, under a hypocritical façade of goodness, which will deceive many, but only because they want to...
