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Editor's Corner
The Devil’s Deathly Dominion
Physician-turned-author Walker Percy’s final novel, The Thanatos Syndrome, published in 1987, tells the odd tale of a town wherein the ‘elites’ are devolving - or is that de-evolving? - the minds of its citizens...
Editor's Corner
The Last Martyr of Scotland
Due to some technical and other issues, we're a day late on re-posting this piece, , on the last martyr of the 'Reformation' - a term which I generally put in scare quotations, for...
Editor's Corner
Frances of Rome, and Italia’s Lockdown
In the most troubled of times, God raises up saints as exemplars and intercessors, and Frances of Rome is no exception. Born into privilege in 1384 into a Europe already ravaged by the Black...
Editor's Corner
Imagining Corona
Napoleon once quipped that men live by imagination – by which, we may surmise, he meant that they live more in the future than the present, of what may yet be, instead of what...
Blogs
Prophetic Parodies
I’m not sure if that anti-rape dancing video we posted recently was a parody, but the influx of migrants does not seem to be. The Camp of the Saints, which was a parodic...
Editor's Corner
Canada, Good While It Lasted
What more need be said, for the visuals speak a thousand words? Vanguards of police standing mutely and idly by, while ‘protesters’ – armed terrorists, more to the point – light fires on public...
Nota in Brevis
Last Thoughts on Vanier
A friend asked me to write a follow up to my initial article on Catholic Insight concerning Jean Vanier, and I will hopefully leave this as the last word on the matter, as we...
Editor's Corner
Spiritual and Secular Asceticism
A blessed and grace-filled Lenten season to all our readers, beginning with this solemn commemoration of Ash Wednesday to launch us on our way through our own ‘forty days’ in the metaphorical desert.
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