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Editor's Corner
Pravda, Canadian-Style
In our ever-more deranged Dominion, it began with the $600 million subsidy to ‘help’ journalistic sources – of course, only those selected by the government. The CRTC has already called for the CBC to...
Nota in Brevis
Trump, Truth, Teachers and Thanatos
Trump’s State of the Union address was a remarkable affair, from what highlights I could glean. Ebullient, optimistic, confident – all in the very room where the soon-to-be-declared failed impeachment process was held. For...
Nota in Brevis
The Bad and the Good
The German episcopacy begins its tortured synodal path today, with the intent, according to reports, to approve contraception, homosexuality and female ordination, any one of which would put them outside the visible, hierarchical Church...
Featured Highlights
Lawlessness and Trumping Choice
Besides being the memorial - or, as I like to think of it, the feast - of Saint Thomas Aquinas, this is also the rather ambiguous anniversary, back on this day in 1988, of...
Editor's Corner
A Crisis of Faith
Reports indicate that only a quarter of Catholics believe in the Real Presence, and even that may be an overestimate. One wonders about belief in other ‘hard truths’, as even the Apostles described Christ’s...
Nota in Brevis
The Decline and Fall of the Catholic University: Episode 1
Since the tragedy is so grand, so evocative and seemingly inevitable, it seems requisite to keep some historical record of the continued decline of the once-proud-and-great Catholic university, especially here in Canada. Since this...
Editor's Corner
A Day of Life and A Day of Reckoning
President Trump has declared today, January 22nd, the memorial of Saint Vincent the Martyr, as ‘National Sanctity of Human Life Day’ – something called for in Pope Saint John Paul II’s encyclical Evangelium Vitae...
Editor's Corner
Saint Agnes and True Feminity
Today, the universal Church celebrates the memorial of Saint Agnes, a young Virgin Martyr, who perished by the sword under the reign of Diocletian in 304. Her name, which sounds like the Latin noun...
