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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...
Editor's Corner
Just War, in Theory and Praxis
The Holy Father recently brought into question the notion of a 'just war', which brings to mind a comment from a Catholic in a question-and-answer period after a talk years ago, who declared quite...
Book
From Benedict’s Peace to Francis’ War: A Review
The fight for Tradition in the Church, in particular her liturgy, is a long and arduous one that will not cease until the parousia, entering an acute phase in our own day, but all...
Editor's Corner
Ten Theological Books With Which to Begin
(Here are some thoughts from a talk I gave to the Catholic Teachers' Guild of Toronto recently on suggestions for books to read in theology and philosophy. This is not so much a 'top...
