Nota in Brevis, December 12th. Our Lady of Guadalupe, et al.
*Today is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, declared patroness of the Americas, and bumped up to a feast day, by Pope Saint...
Nota in Brevis, December 9th
*Buried in the headlines is the notice that at least 30 Afghanis are dead, killed in an attack by the Taliban at Kandahar airport....
Nota in Brevis, December 4th
*Today is the memorial of Saint John Damascene, who lived in what is in now Syria and died on this day in 749, in...
Nota in Brevis November 30th
Today is the feast of Saint Andrew, Apostle, brother of Saint Peter, patron of Scotland, Russia, Ukraine and Greece, for what reason are somewhat...
Nota in Brevis November 25
I am not surprised: Peter Jackson now admits that he made up the Hobbit trilogy more or less as it went along. From the...
Nota in Brevis, November 20th
Masked, armed Muslims stormed the Radisson hotel in Bamako, Mali, taking 170 hostages. As I write, there is an operation underway to free them,...
Nota in Brevis, November 18th
There is a new craze, of all things, for adult colouring books. I know much has been written on the infantilization of our culture,...
Music & Beauty
The Tallis Choir is holding a choral concert, Charpentier's Midnight Mass for New France, on the evening of November 28th at the beautiful Saint...
Trudeau & Abortion
Justin Trudeau has been elected as Canada's 23rd Prime Minister, the son of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada's 15th. Â I never thought I would...
Trudeau & Migrants
Trudeau and his Liberal majority government is following through on its plan to move 25,000 Syrian refugees (migrants?) to Canada. Â Questions abound, not just...