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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...
Reviews
Romano Guardini’s ‘The End of the Modern World’
The End of the Modern World, a 1956 book by Italian-German priest and theologian, Romano Guardini, is not an easy or facile read. That is not to say that Father Guardini does not write...
Articles
Massacres and the Evil One
How are we to respond to the recent massacres? The supermarket shooting just last week, and then the horrific killing of children as they sat in their classroom. The headlines evince any number of...
