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Nota in Brevis
Rise and Fall: Everest and Constantinople
May 29th is the anniversary of two world changing events: The first, and more recent, was the reaching the summit of Mount Everest, the top of the world at 29, 029 feet, five miles...
Editor's Corner
Paul VI, and Finding Sanctity in a Controversial Papacy
Today, May 29th, is the optional memorial of Pope Saint Paul VI, celebrated on the anniversary of his ordination in 1920. Paul VI's birth name was Giovanni Battista Enrico Maria Montini, coming into the world...
Editor's Corner
Saint Bernard of Montjoux and his Dogs
The iconic Saint Bernard dogs take their name from today's saint, Saint Bernard of Menthon - also known as of Montjoux - an 11th century Burgundian priest from a noble family, who was born...
Editor's Corner
Augustine of Canterbury’s Monastic Mission to Make England Merrie
There are two Saints Augustine - the bishop of Hippo, and author of the Confessions and numerous other theological masterpieces, and, today's saint, Augustine, the first bishop of Canterbury, (+604), often pronounced in England,...
Editor's Corner
Saint Philip Neri’s Joyful Heart
Who could not love the saint we celebrate today, one of the most joyful and idiosyncratic – the two are not unrelated - of saints, Philip Neri, (+1595), the founder of the Congregation of...
Editor's Corner
Saints Bede, Gregory VII, and Mary Magdalene de’Pazzi
There are many saints in the Church's history - there are, by one estimate, about 6000 at least quasi-officially canonized - too many ever to be celebrated liturgically in the 365 days of the...
Saints
Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
On the 160th anniversary of the first apparition of Lourdes, on February 11th, Robert Cardinal Sarah, then-head of the Congregation for Divine Worship, issued a decree with the authority of the Holy Father, declaring...
Articles
Father Kapaun’s March Through the Valley of Death
Father Emil Kapaun was an army chaplain who died in this 23rd day of May in a prisoner of war camp in North Korea in 1951. (His heroic life has been recounted by John...
