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Editor's Corner
Ave, Maria, Gratia Plena!
A blessed, joyous and grace-filled solemnity of the Annunciation to one and all! Today, the divine Word was made incarnate in the womb of the Virgin Mary, when she gave her fiat, the one...
Editor's Corner
Saint Patrick and the Emerald Isle: Erin Go Bragh!
A very happy Saint Patrick’s Day, to all our readers, which this year is still toned down by the insidious Covid-19 virus - or, now a year on, our reaction to said virus -...
Nota in Brevis
Consecration and Conversion
It has been announced that the Holy Father will formally consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Friday, March 25th, the solemnity of the Annunciation (and the Incarnation). Readers may...
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...
