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Editor's Corner
Hoping Against Hope
Whether the young and drunkards both abound in hope is a question asked by Saint Thomas in his treatise on that most enigmatic and ā we must admit ā all-too-neglected virtue (I-II, q. 40,...
Articles
Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power
(I thought a re-post of these thoughts from nearly five years ago now (!) was a propos, given our current Alice-in-Wonderland-cum-1984 world, making our way, as others have said, through a blizzard of lies....
Editor's Corner
Saint Vincent and Roe versus Wade: Great Good out of Great Evil
Saint Vincent the Deacon (+304), who suffered grievous tortures witnessing to his Catholic faith under the Diocletian persecution, is a providential saint for this sombre anniversary of the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision of...
Editor's Corner
The Limits of Papal Authority, and the Covid Vaccine
Pope Francis has added the heft of his papal authority to the question of the Covid vaccine in a television recent interview:
I believe that morally everyone must take the vaccineā¦It is the moral choice...
Editor's Corner
The Covid Vaccine: Formal and Material Cooperation, and the Principle of Double Effect
Opinions on the 'vaccine' range from those who see it as the prophylactic panacea to bring us back to peace and normality - whatever that may now mean - all the way to those...
Editor's Corner
Coup, Coup, Ubi Es Tu?
Whatever happened on Capitol Hill last week cannot be described as a ācoupā, and the charge of 'attempted coup' cannot be placed at the feet of Donald Trump. That would, in any previous society,...
Editor's Corner
The (Non) Children of Men and the Indissoluble Nexus
It was somewhat disconcerting to discover that the 1992 novel The Children of Men by mystery writer P.D. James was set in January of 2021, which seemed a long time in the future even...
Editor's Corner
Year of Saint Joseph: The Shadow of the Father
On this solemnity of Mary's Divine Motherhood, it's good also to be reminded of her husband's quasi-divine Fatherhood, as we begin this 'Year of Saint Joseph'. I write 'quasi' - 'as though' - for...
