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Editor's Corner
IVF and Adopting Embryos
I was waiting for it, as I listened to a recent pro-life talk I attended, the topic of which was IVF: I had an inkling the presenter would raise the fractious issue of ‘adopting’...
Editor's Corner
Hamburg, Hiroshima and Hamas: Innocents in War and the Dignity of Human Life
On October 11, 1649, the troops of Oliver Cromwell, who was then 'Lord Protector of England', stormed the besieged village of Wexford, Ireland. The soldiers killed indiscriminately, leaving 1600 dead. This was par for...
Editor's Corner
‘Our Lady of Public Health’
On this feast of Saint Luke, physician and healer, it is a propos that we post a link to a series of insightful and intriguing essays on our health-and-safety obsessed world, by the doughty...
Nota in Brevis
How Really to Remember Senator Feinstein
For what should Senator Diane Feinstein, who died recently at the advanced age of 91 after a long - some might say far too long - career in politics, be remembered? Most of us...
Editor's Corner
Gregorian Chant: Music for Soul, Body, and God
I recently read a short (152 pages) and small book (each page is 5” by 6”), with beautiful font, and a fittingly short title, Chant, by Katherine le Mée, published in 1994. But don’t...
Editor's Corner
Crushing Dissent
The punishing penal sentences meted to two groups of protestors - a group of pro-lifers who blocked an abortuary, as well as those who wandered through the Capitol on 'January 6' - are indicative:...
Editor's Corner
Resisting Evil: The Beatification of the Ulma Family
God permits moral evil - He never wills it, let it be said - but He does allow it, even the grave and demonic kind, for reasons that are mysterious. But one which we...
Editor's Corner
The Problem with Sedevanctism
(With Father James Altman's recent declaration on the question of sedevacantism, here is a re-post of something I wrote earlier in the summer, and why we must tread with great caution in declaring a...
