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Editor's Corner
Like a Tree Cut Back: Memoir of A Lost Ireland
Like a Tree Cut Back
By Michael McCarthy
The Poetry Business, Sheffield, England
smith-doorstop, 2021
Father Michael McCarthy’s memoir, Like a Tree Cut Back, takes its title from the motto of his alma mter, Carlow College, where he...
Editor's Corner
A Reader’s Criticism and a Rallying Cry
A reader - perhaps, as he admits, for his first and only time - wrote the following comment in response to my Dominion Day piece:
Newly aware of this Catholic website I am quite surprised...
Editor's Corner
The Quite Real Limits of Evil
(For those who prefer auditory format, we will record some of these articles as 'podcasts', and please do let us know what you think).
History, in fact, is not in the hands of the powers...
Editor's Corner
Our Original, Glorious and Very Catholic Anthem
A happy and grateful Canada Day to all our readers which I prefer to call Dominion Day, as signifying more fully our allegiance to our king - or, as we now have, queen -...
Editor's Corner
Canada’s Dominion Day
A blessed Canada, or more properly, Dominion Day to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of ‘Canada’ as a (mostly) independent part of the British Commonwealth since the signing into...
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Virtue and Vice, and Not Everything Nice
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
What does it mean to be ‘virtuous’? There is virtue-signaling, with its pejorative sense, even though one might interpret...
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The Astronomer and Physicist and Worlds Colliding
What have ancient Greek philosophy, a prophecy of Christ and Covid in common, and might this commonality be used to find common ground? Read on, Macduff, and find out:
For people once on familiar speaking...
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Recognizing Lies and Truth
There are different ways to lie. The classical definition is ‘to enunciate a falsehood with the intent to deceive’, derived from Saint Augustine, adopted by Saint Thomas (I-II, 110, 1-2), who draws from this...
