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Editor's Corner
Adding Titles and Falling Totems
Pope Francis has added three new titles to the Litany of Loreto, the ancient prayer to Our Lady under various of her titles: We are asked to invoke her intercession as Mother of Mercy,...
Editor's Corner
The Neo-Barbarians
Cancel culture continues - and there seems little or no distinctions in the collective mind in what they will destroy, annihilate, obliterate. We use the singular 'mind', for independent thought seems to be vanishing...
Editor's Corner
Nicene’s Creed and Christ’s Human and Divine Heart
The Creed of the Council of Nicaea was officially promulgated on this day in 325 A.D., under the auspices of the newly-converted - well, mostly converted, for he waited until his deathbed to be...
Editor's Corner
Scotus Unravels the Social Order Yet Further
In 1964, the United States passed the Civil Rights Act, which forbade unjust discrimination based on ārace, color, religion, sex or national originā. Today, in 2020, the United States Supreme Court decreed that homosexuality...
Editor's Corner
Obedience in a Time of Crisis – A Cross in the Road
Anarchy is the condition in any society where there is no law, no rule, no measure ā chaos, and may be said to be the opposite of Christianity, with God creating the world according...
Editor's Corner
Erastianism and a Free Church
Thomas Erastus (1524 ā 1583) was a Swiss physician and theologian who adopted the newfangled heretical doctrines of Ulrich Zwingli, a sort of extreme Calvinist, who rejected most of the sacraments, and believed the...
Editor's Corner
Henry and Catherine and What Might Have Been
It was on this day in 1509 that Henry VIII, of the recently founded, and some say upstart, Tudor dynasty, married Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of...
Editor's Corner
Son of Consolation
It is fitting that we celebrate Barnabas, the āson of consolationā, or the āson of encouragementā, around the time of Pentecost, for the Holy Spirit is revealed as the 'Consoler', the Advocate and Guide.
Indeed,...
