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Editor's Corner
God, the Universe, and Hubble
On September 23rd, 1924, the universe got a little bigger - at least from our perspective. The ancients - Aristotle, Plato, Ptolemy - thought the cosmos more or less the size of our Solar...
Editor's Corner
Newfoundland Moribundus?
Newfoundland and Labrador, jutting out into the cold North Atlantic, have been battered in past decades - no pun on their fishing industry, which has too suffered. They seem to get the worst of...
Blogs
The Mystery Hidden For Ages in God, or, Why Aren’t Catholics Holier Than They Are?
On his visit to our college a number of years ago, the late Jesuit priest and scholar Father Koterski mentioned a book that he described as the ‘most influential he has ever read’, namely,...
Editor's Corner
Avuncular Bishops: Evoke Thy Inner Father
I don’t discipline my brother’s children; my role is avuncular. I may exhort them to be good, and demur when they do bad; I certainly pray for them. But I leave the ‘vis et...
Editor's Corner
The Foiling of Fawkes
Remember, remember! the fifth of November.
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Guy Fawkes and his companions
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Editor's Corner
Conscience and the Mandates
There is a science – one might more properly term it an art - to moral discernment in our Church’s tradition, and we offer it here as a guide for our readers, for their...
Articles
Max Planck’s Mighty Minimum
Suppose for instance someone maintained that there is a minimum magnitude; that man with his minimum would shake the foundations of mathematics.
So prophesied Aristotle more twenty-four centuries ago. And, as with many things Aristotelian,...
