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Editor's Corner
Assumption and the Resurrection
A blessed and glorious solemnity of the Assumption to one and all! A day commemorating the taking up of the Blessed Virgin Mary, body and soul, into heaven at the end of her earthly...
Editor's Corner
Sheer Cliffs and Discerning Risk
On August 13th in 1995, Alison Hargreaves, a wife and mother of two small children, summitted the notorious K2, one of the most dangerous mountains in the world, on whose ice-encrusted face 99 climbers...
Editor's Corner
Saint Cassian of Imola: A Teacher for the Ages
On this 13th day of August, we commemorate a little-known saint, Cassian of Imola, a Christian schoolmaster in northern fourth-century Italy. By edict of Julian the Apostate, he was commanded to offer sacrifice to...
Saints
Pontian, Hippolytus, Pope and Anti-Pope, Now Saints Together
An anti-Pope is someone who thinks he's the Pope - or at least who claims to be the Pope - when in reality he is not. There's a few of them around still. And...
Editor's Corner
Jane Frances de Chantal’s Visitation
Jane Frances Fremiot (+1641) was a beautiful, refined young woman from Burgundy, betrothed to the handsome Baron de Chantal at 21 years old - a veritable Austen-esque marriage of true minds, in a French...
Editor's Corner
Fauci’s Apocalypse
Apocalypse is the Greek word for Revelation, which is why the final book of the Bible goes by both names. But there is much in a name, of whatever language. Apocalypse, unlike the more...
Editor's Corner
Saint Lawrence’s Divine Comedy
Today's Saint Lawrence (+258) lives on in the legend of his own divine comedy, a Spaniard from Valencia, chosen in the very bloom of his early maturity by the intelligent and saintly Pope Sixtus...
Editor's Corner
Saint Edith Stein’s Witness to the Cross
Edith Stein (+ 1942) was a brilliant philosopher, earning her doctorate summa cum laude in August of 1916 on the problem of empathy - understanding the suffering of others. Fitting, for she came into in the...
