Editor's Corner
Saint Martin of Tours and Armistice Day
Musings on Mater Fidelis and the Munificence of God
Pope Saint Leo, the First of the Greats
The Foiling of Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
Charles Borromeo Leads the True Reformation
Featured Podcast
Nota in Brevis
A Half Century Ago Was the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Mamdani’s Gotham
Gold Mass 2025, Toronto
Supreme Oaths and Doctor Newman
The Dies Irae: Day of Wrath, but Also of Mercy
Articles
Pope Benedict on Pope Saint Leo the Great
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica: A Universal Call to Holiness.
Pope Benedict on Today’s Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran
How Do We Know Christ Really Lived?
“Verso L ’Alto” – A Meditation on the Hidden Sanctity of Pier Giorgio Frassati
Features
“Verso L ’Alto” - A Meditation on the Hidden Sanctity of Pier Giorgio Frassati
The Italian Alps — that formidable stretch of Europe’s great mountain arc — rise in dramatic splendour above the landscape that so enduringly shaped St. Pier Giorgio Frassati’s life of prayer and adventure. The Australian Alps, sharing the name only in part, resemble their European counterparts more in spirit than in scale. In the former, the first snow-caps have already appeared; in the latter, the slopes are beginning to burst into bloom. The marvellous beauty of nature delights the eyes and reveals the hand of the Creator.
Apologetics 101
Apologetics is the art of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse, making reference to both faith and reason as appropriate, in light of Saint Peter’s admonition to ‘Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence’ (1 Peter 3:15).
