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Editor's Corner
Complacence, Complaisance, Courage and Christ
Saints Peter and Paul, whom we celebrate today, and John the Baptist, whose birth we recalled a few days ago, were neither complacent nor complaisant. In fact, the saints could be claimed as the...
Editor's Corner
Should We Receive Communion Daily? A Respondeo
I heard recently a homily from a traditional priest, the theme of which was how often we should receive Holy Communion, which topic, funnily enough, also came up in a conversation I had with...
Editor's Corner
S.A.D.S, Bieber and the Pope
I did not know that Ray Liotta had died, in his sleep. He was in the midst of filming a new movie, and engaged to be married, so seemed in good health. It’s not...
Book
Reading the Church Fathers: A Review
As I was reading Reading the Church Fathers: A History of the Early Church and the Development of Doctrine, a brand new magnum opus by scholar James L. Papandrea, I wondered whether the author...
Nota in Brevis
Saint Boniface and ‘Ordinary’ Time
We missed the feast of Saint Boniface this year, as it was trumped by the far greater feast of Pentecost - the second most solemn day in the Church's calendar, after Easter. But a...
Editor's Corner
Pelosi, Abortion and the Purpose of Law
As might have been expected, Nancy Pelosi, in response to her Archbishop’s forbidding her from Communion until she repent, remains defiant in her support for legalized abortion. She has gone on the offensive, but...
Editor's Corner
Courage, Uvalde and Taking the Hit
Aristotle says that virtue is found in the mean between two extremes, but this does not mean the middle. Rather, it is the balance, often weighted to one side. Thus, generosity is a mean...
Editor's Corner
The Loss of the Empress, Stan Rogers and St. Roch’s Circumnavigation
A wee bit of Canadiana for our readers:
On this day in 1914, the Scottish ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the estuary of the Saint Lawrence River, after an accidental collision with...
