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Nota in Brevis
Just Do It
On this day in 1977, after a ten year hiatus, capital punishment resumed again in the United States, with the execution by firing squad of convicted killer Gary Gilmore, who had murdered two men...
Quotes
All sins are despised by God, especially pride. My beloved, rebuke yourselves, and confess your own sins, so that God my elevate you (Saint Anthony of Egypt, +356)
Nota in Brevis
Cardinal Pell’s Last Words
I don't know the final, final words of Cardinal George Pell as he lay in his hospital bed, but here is the last article he had published, in the Spectator, a fitting testament to...
Quotes
The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable. (Saint Hilary of Poitiers, +367)
Nota in Brevis
Pledging Allegiance
As the aphorism goes, pictures speak a thousand words, as we witness societal devolution over the span of a few decades. School have become dangerous, even scandalous, places for children. Woe to those by...
Quotes
Teaching is the work most suited to draw down the graces of God if it is done with purity of intention, without distinction between the poor and the rich, between relatives and friends and...
Editor's Corner
Cardinal Pell, Rest in Peace
George Cardinal Pell died yesterday, suffering a heart attack after what seemed to be routine hip surgery. Requiescat in pace. He was 81, and lived a long and full life, serving the Church in...
Quotes
Christ is bathed in light; let us also be bathed in light. Christ is baptized; let us also go down with him, and rise with him. (Saint Gregory Nazianzen, +390)
