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Editor's Corner
Rush, Entropy…And Electric Barchettas?
Canada, and various jurisdictions in Europe and the U.S., plan to make gasoline-powered vehicles, at least of the personal variety, more or less illegal. They will be phased out over time, of course, but...
Nota in Brevis
As the Family Goes…
The family is the original cell of society. So says Pope John Paul II, and the Catechism. And we all know what happens when cells break down – the body falls apart, which is...
Editor's Corner
Adam, Eve, Christ and Mary
Christmas Eve is the traditional feast of Adam and Eve, our primordial parents, considered saints in the Church, brought to heaven on the first Holy Saturday. (There is a beautiful early homily commemorating the...
Editor's Corner
Thoughts on Father Pavone
What is one to say about the laicization of Father Frank Pavone? (so we will refer to him, even in a posteriori sense, for ease of discourse). The sentence seems sudden and disproportionate, the...
Book
On the Beach, With Benedict and Hope
Pope Benedict XVI, in his second encyclical, the 2008 Spe Salvi (Salvific Hope) offers a distinction from the Letter to the Hebrews: We as Christians do not place not our hope on the hyparchonton...
Editor's Corner
Obsessed with Death
In his 1987 novel, The Thanatos Syndrome, physician-turned-author Walker Percy imagines a town whose inhabitants are reverting to simianism, that is, becoming more ape-like, a reverse evolution, or devolution, if you will. Their speech...
Editor's Corner
History is Christological, Mariological – and Josephological
A fruitful read by Peter Leithart: Man's Marian Future. And not only is our future Marian, but so is our past and present, but only because all time is first and foremost Christological. The...
Editor's Corner
Saint Bernard’s Three Advents
In one of his sermons, the Cistercian abbot, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (+1090) distinguishes three Advents of Christ: The first, at Christmas, when He came as a little child, in human weakness, even a...
