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Editor's Corner
Saint Benedict’s Option
On this feast of Saint Benedict (+543), we commemorate the monk credited with saving what we know as 'civilization'. As a student in Rome in its sixth century fin de siècle, Benedict found he...
Editor's Corner
A Pilgrimage By the Saint Lawrence
The mighty Saint Lawrence River is intertwined with the history of Canada and the United States, and forms a natural border between the two countries. It's how everyone arrived in Canada before the invention...
Nota in Brevis
The Marvelous Martyrs of Gorkum and the Abandoned Annulled Anne of Cleves
In one of those many mysteries of providence, this day marking the martyrs of China is also the anniversary of the Martyrs of Gorkum, nineteen Catholic priests, diocesan and religious, hanged on this day...
Editor's Corner
Myriads of Martyrs for China
Through the centuries there have been untold thousands of martyrs in China, and July 9th is chosen as the day to commemorate them, for it was on this day in 1900 that the Chinese...
Articles
A Brief Meditation on Man’s Magnificence
What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason,
how infinite in faculties, in form and moving,
how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension,
how like a god! (Hamlet, Act...
Editor's Corner
Saint Kilian’s Head and the Pattern Dance
Saint Kilian (or Cilian, originally in Gaelic Ceallach, 640-689) was an Irish missionary bishop who brought the Faith to central Europe, Franconia, now part of northern Bavaria, which is still more or less staunchly...
Editor's Corner
Maria Goretti, Martyr for Chastity
It was a hot, humid and sweltering July 6th in the year of our Lord 1902, one hundred and twenty four years ago, in a small farming town in the fetid area outside of...
Nota in Brevis
Saint Anthony Zaccaria
Saint Anthony Zaccaria (+1539), from noble lineage in late-renaissance Italy, was born in Rome in 1502, on the cusp of the Protestant revolt against the Catholic Church. But the mayhem at this point was mostly...
