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Editor's Corner
A Few More Good (Gentle) Men
I was in the Niagara region for a wedding last weekend, and, cycling around, I came across this statue of George VI overlooking the falls. I liked the ring of ‘King of Canada’, and...
Editor's Corner
Les Poètes Maudits and Their Bitter Fruits
One of the fastest growing 'religious' groups in the West are the 'nones', and I put that in scare quotes, since these are those who espouse no religion, with an indifference to any form...
Editor's Corner
Propaganda, Perspicacity and Peace
Propaganda and censorship have had a bad rap, pummeled in the twentieth century almost into swear words, but in their essence and etymology, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with them. They’ve just been put...
Editor's Corner
The Pope, the TLM and the Novus Ordo: Who’s Really Following Vatican II?
The Holy Father just cannot let it go: In remarks made the other day on May 7th to liturgical scholars at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute of Sant’Anselmo – yes, I know, Anselm must be...
Editor's Corner
George Weigel’s Double Standard
George Weigel, papal biographer and social commentator, certainly has his fixed opinions, and I don’t mind that, even if I may at times disagree just as fixedly. I will leave aside his tendentious, one...
Featured
Court Leaks and Standing for Life
Hssss…Is that escaping air, or the sound of a forked tongue?
The leak of the draft of the Supreme Court’s potential upcoming majority decision on Roe v. Wade reminds of a similar one in the...
Editor's Corner
Law and the Militant Church
There are three 'dimensions' to the Church in her pilgrimage through time: The Church suffering, in purgatory; the Church triumphant, in heaven; and the Church militant, here on Earth. These terms are muted in...
Nota in Brevis
Loving and Liking
Unlike English, Greek has at least four words for “love,” classically and clearly distinguished by the great C.S. Lewis in his book titled, appropriately enough, The Four Loves. There is agape, pure unselfish love, the...
