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Editor's Corner
Banting and Best’s Better Choice
Before we leave this July 27th in the rearview mirror, a brief note to commemorate the discovery of insulin on this day in 1921 by Dr. Frederick Banting, John James Macleod, Charles Best and...
Editor's Corner
Saint Charbel and the Catholic ‘Mosque’
The Muslims know how to pick their days. But, then, so does God. As mentioned a few days ago, for the first time in nearly a century, the ancient church of Hagia Sophia, one...
Editor's Corner
Ideas Do Have Consequences
On this day, in 1925, a young German veteran, bitter in soul from the humiliating defeat of his nation in the recent war ‘to end all wars’, published a vitriolic book, Mein Kampf –...
Articles
To Mask or Not to Mask? That is the Question
One of the primary tasks of a free citizenry is to resist encroaching tyranny – even of the ‘soft’ variety - for once we’ve given up our rights, ‘tis very difficult to get them...
Articles
The Precipitous Prelate and the Prudential Pope
Newton’s Third Law has many applications, as does Hegel’s dialectic of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, in that eternal struggle of the World Spirit – even in the ecclesial and theological realm. For the Church, in her earthly...
Nota in Brevis
Fatima’s Third Vision and Avoiding Hell
Today, July 13th is the a 103rd anniversary of the third vision at Fatima - no, not the third secret, which is another story - to the three shepherd children, the one in which...
Articles
Saint Henry, King and Emperor
Today we remember Saint Henry, Emperor of the Romans and King of the Italians, the last of the 'Ottonian' line - deriving from the original Emperor, Otto I. Henry was from Bavaria – whence...
Editor's Corner
Why Is Quaffing an Ale Fine, but Smoking a Joint Not?
(The following was recently published on LifeSite, in response to the setting up of a marijuana store - a 'pot shop' - in the small community in which the writer lives, and it may...
