Nota in Brevis

As an addendum to my recent reflections on the sexual scandals inundating Hollywood, I highly recommend this read from psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple on the effects of the sexual revolution, and libertinism, on the front lines of society.  To say the least, it is not pretty.  

On the sad state of our educational system, at all levels, one could wax eloquent for many hours. We have the well-compensated teachers at our colleges, having now been on strike for weeks, using the students as pawns in their game of monetary poker.  Such is the effect of a state-funded system, rife with endemic[…]

A profitable read for this morning is another fine, precise and elucidating article by Father Rutler, on this quasi-anniversary of the Russian Revolution (as he mentions, they still used the older Julian calendar back then, resisting the corrections mandated by Pope Gregory XIII in 1584). As I wrote the other day, the Russian revolutionaries, Bolsheviks[…]

Alas, it is difficult to absorb, but another massacre has been perpetrated in the United States:  This time a troubled 26 year old father, dishonorably discharged from the Air Force, walked into a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, during their Sunday service, killing at least 26 people, including children, and the pastor’s teenage daughter,[…]

“Give Me A Voice” joins well-loved Catholic programs in its October schedule TORONTO, October 25, 2017 – Radio Maria Canada, a 24-hour Catholic radio station committed to being an ‘outstretched hand’ to all persons of good will, announces the addition of “Give Me a Voice” to its fall program schedule. Airing on Tuesdays at 8[…]

A Catholic Goes to the Movies, a collection of thirty-seven film reviews by Daniel Callam, C.S.B., is now available from Justin Press. The author founded The Canadian Catholic Review and edited it from 1983 until 1997. The reviews found in this book were originally published in The Chesterton Review. Father Callam’s witty and insightful analysis[…]