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Articles
Chanting the Lord’s Prayer in Scotch Gaelic
Some languages are more similar than others, and some in ways we may not expect. One would not put ecclesiastical Latin and Scotch Gaelic into the same category - the words are almost all...
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A New Priest for Pembroke
The newly-minted - or should I say, newly chrismed - Father Lukas Casta was ordained a priest for the diocese of Pembroke today, the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, in a beautiful ceremony...
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Dead-End Debate
Do politics still mean something? I suppose they mean something, but what exactly, is dubious. We're a long, long way from what Aristotle meant by politics in his eponymous book. Far less do modern...
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De-Fund the CBC
The CBC has got to go, a billion dollar state-funded propaganda machine, with the worst of it what is has done and is doing to children. Canadian Broadcast Corporation? More like Children's Brainwashing Cult.
Exhibit...
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The Ludicrous Seriousness of Sports
I don’t watch professional sports, but made one brief exception last night to watch the third, and final, period in the NHL playoff game. I was wandering the streets of the town in which...
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Bach and the Baptist
On this Solemnity of Saint John the Baptist, in 1724, Bach first presented one of several cantatas he composed on the great saint and precursor of Christ, Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam (Christ...
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Liturgical and Moral Orthodoxy
The Catechism makes clear that there is a close link amongst the three-fold mission of the Church, leiturgia, diakonia and martyria: (cf., Deus Caritas Est, #25). That is, liturgical worship, charity, and the witness...
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Juneteenth and Subtle Slavery
Just a few words about Juneteenth, a commemoration, instantiated into law in 2021, celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, which was promulgated in 1863, but only made known to slaves in Texas on...
