Literary Digressions

Easy Essays Sheed and Ward, 1936Looking at property, Fr. Henry Carr, Superior of the Basilians, says:Socialists and Communists battle against the unequal conditions of the poor. Presumably they...

Padre's corner“These is so much bad in the best of us, And so much good in the worst of us, That it hardly behooves any...

Address (in part) given by Brigadier G. P. Vanier, D.S.O., M.C. at graduation class exercises, O.T.C., Brockville.First comes faith. Faith in God and in His...

Vol IV, No. 2 (October 1904)The Old Coat of Arms at Placentia: The French ArmsAlthough the Fleur-de-Lis was from time immemorial used in ornamentation...

Maurice Baring, Lost Lectures of the Fruits of Experience. Peter Davies Ltd, London: 1932. Chapter 12: Music.But the most remarkable musical experiences of my life happened...

From the preface to The Path to Rome, 1902I said, “I will start from the place where I served in arms for my sins;...

Fr. Vincent McNabb, O.P., S.T.M., from the Catholic Land Movement: it's motives. C.T.S.: London, 1932.Out of Egypt have I called my son (Mt 2:15, Jer...

FROM: ORESTES BROWNSON, “QUARTERLY REVIEW FOR JANUARY 1873” The Works of Orestes A. Brownson, Vol. XX Collected and arranged by Henry F. Brownson Detroit: H. F. Brownson,...

FROM: RONALD KNOX, “NAZI AND NAZARENE” MacMillan War Pamphlets No. 5 London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd., 1940We have to remember, besides, that the wedge method always...

Camouflage S. M. George Massey, C.M.S.C. from B.M.A. “Blitz,” Vol. 1, No. 3 Brockville, ON: July 1942.They tell us tales of camouflage, The art of hiding things; Of painted...