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Nota in Brevis
McCarrick Report Reductio ad Absurdam
I don't think I am ever going to read the McCarrick report - at 460 or so pages, with copious footnotes, it is akin to Augustine's City of God, but a lot less edifying...
Editor's Corner
Remembering Those Who Came Before Us
(I wrote this upon visiting my grandparents' graves in Scotland two years ago, but seems a propos for this time as we especially remember our dead, and speed them into that heavenly kingdom...Editor)
If for...
Featured Highlights
All Saints’, Real Conversion Therapy and Hope Amidst the Ruins
This is the eve of All Saints' known affectionately in our era as 'Halloween', even if many may not knows the derivative of this now-mostly-pagan holiday, with ghouls and ghosts and bloodied zombies. The...
Editor's Corner
Terror in France, Then and Now
(It is difficult to believe that I wrote this piece five years ago, after a terrorist bomb attack in France at a soccer stadium, with at least one hundred killed. The slaughter of three...
Editor's Corner
Courts, Cardinals and Constantine
Where does one even begin, as events outpace our capacity to absorb and assimilate them?
The U.S. Senate, by a rather slim majority (52 to 48) has confirmed Mrs. Amy Coney Barrett as the newest...
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Pope John Paul, the Good and the Great
Karol Wojytla, the man who would be known to history as John Paul II, was a true man, his character forged in the fire of suffering, elevated and perfect by the grace of God,...
Editor's Corner
Friendless Ford’s Nation
Doug Ford has apparently said that we must learn to live without friends, and with this, he is on par with his erstwhile-fellow-lockdown leader, Boris Johnson. Besides the obvious differences between the two, there...
Editor's Corner
George Weigel’s Moral Blind Spot
George Weigel, papal biographer, in a recent article in First Things, offers a defense of President Truman’s terrible decision in 1945 to destroy the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, along with most of their...
