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Editor's Corner
Close Calls and Conscience
On February 28th, the U.S. Senate voted on a bill that would have legalized the 'right' for a mother to 'terminate her pregnancy' for all nine months of pregnancy, no questions asked. This would...
Nota in Brevis
Clarificatio
It seems there has been something of a tempest in reaction to my two posts about Russia and Ukraine, which were admittedly hastily written, unclear and, as one person described it, ‘sloppy’. Mea culpa,...
Editor's Corner
The Rule of Law: Keeping It All From Falling Apart
The rule of law - in which each power is balanced by other powers and by other spheres of responsibility which keep it within proper bounds…in which the law is sovereign and not the...
Editor's Corner
The Catholic Origins of the Big Bang
Caeli enarrant gloriam Dei... The heavens are telling the glory of God (Ps. 19)
A recent article in OnePeterFive proposes that the Big Bang theory, - to be explained shortly - is a pagan proposition,...
Editor's Corner
Blessed Robert Southwell, Priest, Poet and Martyr
On this day, February 21, 1595, the Jesuit priest, poet, hymnodist and martyr, Robert Southwell (1561 - 1595) one of the great jewels of England, was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. (The reader...
Articles
Dystopias and Warping Truth
Future dystopias – which now have to be written the present tense – almost invariably involve governmental control and manipulation of the people’s thoughts and consequent behaviour, with a false and deliberately manipulative view...
Editor's Corner
Ars Scribendi – The Art of Writing, If Not Well, At Least Not Badly
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is an old adage that there is no such thing...
Editor's Corner
Quebec’s Capitulation, and Hopeful Resurgence
Capitulate - to surrender after negotiation of terms. (Merriam-Webster) - literally, to hand over one's head.
The statement of the Quebec bishops declaring their submission to the vaccine passport for entry into churches comes across...
