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Nota in Brevis
Why We Can’t Drop the SSPX Debate… At Least, Just Yet
https://onepeterfive.com/can-we-finally-drop-sspx-debate/
This might seem an odd time to discuss the SSPX, as things unravel in our world - terrorism, war, murder and ideologies -Ā all the while the Church, or at least the current Magisterium,...
Book
Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile
I just finished reading Joseph Pearceās biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, subtitled āA Soul in Exileā, a remarkable book, packing a very full life into a very readableĀ Ā Ā pages, showing what the indomitable will of...
Editor's Corner
John of Damascus, Defender of Icons and the Last of the Eastern Fathers
Was there ever a golden age of Catholic and Islamic relations? The evidence for such is slim, with the two religions seemingly incompatible and irreconcilable - after all, they both want to convert everyone...
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 āadoptingā...
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 5ā by 6ā), with beautiful font, and a fittingly short title, Chant, by Katherine le MĆ©e, published in 1994. But donāt...
