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Editor's Corner
Back to Ordinary Time, With Hilary and Mungo
With the feast of Christ's Baptism yesterday, we enter back into what we now call 'Ordinary Time', a term not opposed to 'extraordinary' - for all time is such from out eschatological Catholic perspective...
Editor's Corner
Memento Mori
A blessed and joyous feast of the Baptism of the Lord, commemorating the beginning of Christ’s public ministry which, as more than exegete has put it, was a prelude to His Passion and Death....
Editor's Corner
Ite ad Joseph with Brother Bessette
Today is the feast of the one of Canada's most beloved saints, her own home-grown Andre Bessette (1845-1937), a humble and obscure lay-brother who founded Saint Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal. A sickly boy, brought up...
Editor's Corner
Pope Francis’ Troubling Terminology
There is a principle in theology – which applies to other sciences as well – that we interpret the less authoritative, the less precise and the less clear, in light of what is more...
Nota in Brevis
Pope Sylvester, and the End of a Decade
As 2019 comes to an end, ‘tis fitting to look back on the year – even the decade - that was, and prepare for what will be. Paula Adamick has her own take on...
Nota in Brevis
Christmas Suffering and Joy
The religion of ‘peace’ continues its Christmas gift of bloodshed and mayhem – but then, as Saint Thomas says, without the violence of tyrants, where would we martyrs be? As Saint Paul wrote of...
Editor's Corner
Adelaide, Netflix, Anathema Sit
Saint Adelaide, whose memorial was yesterday in that broad calendar of the blessed, was the first, and as far as I know only, Empress of the Holy Catholic Empire. As a young girl, in...
Editor's Corner
German and Paglian Scandal
What are we to say of the German bishop’s conference – now well traversed on its own path of ‘synodality’ – which just proclaimed homosexuality, by which we may presume they mean the sin...
