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Editor's Corner
Evelyn Waugh and the Mass of the Ages
I was struck as I finished up reading over a small volume of letters by the great English writer Evelyn Waugh, author of such treasures as Brideshead Revisited, Love Among the Ruins, A Handful...
Editor's Corner
The Good Side of the Covid Crisis
And, therefore, my own good daughter, do not let your mind be troubled over anything that shall happen to me in this world. Nothing can come but what God wills. And I am very...
Nota in Brevis
Policing, Policies and the Polis
The Coronavirus saga continues. As an older friend of mine – a healthy and vigorous late-septuagenarian - put it to me recently, he’s not sick of the virus, but he’s sick of the virus....
Editor's Corner
The Mystery of Salvific Suffering
As we move towards Holy Week in this last week of Lent - in the midst of this global crisis, the unfolding effects of which are almost unknowable - it may help upon the mystery...
Editor's Corner
Ad Orientem, et Pro Populo
The Bishop of Boise, Idaho, Peter F. Christensen, has specifically forbidden his priests, even in their ultra-private Masses now mandated, from celebrating ‘ad orientem’. We’ve got to stop all those young rebels, it seems,...
Editor's Corner
Stats, Reality and Repentance
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics…
So quipped Mark Twain, and, in the main, he was right. Statistics can be made to say pretty much whatever one wants them to...
Nota in Brevis
Hope and Joy in these Latter Lenten Days
We are getting towards the latter days of the great journey of Lent, - and this has been a Lent to end all Lents, at least in our brief lifetimes. The word 'Lent' is...
