 FROM THE EDITOR
Welcome to the 2007 Autumn issue of Hereditas.
You will find us thicker than ever, though the pages are narrower due
to the new post office rules. It’s been a tight squeeze trying to
fit in as many good things as we could. We have quite a lot of fiction
this time as the word gets out to Catholic writers. A couple of
them had Ireland on their minds -- a bit of St. Patrick’s Day in the
autumn. Then we have our usual rich harvest of essays --
including the second part of Mrs. Dagenais’ study of the Frankfurt
School. Then there is our interview with Tim Powers. We’ve
also picked up some poetry, some book reviews, and some worthwhile
information on this month’s focus publisher, Little Flowers Family
Press.
I’d especially like to draw your attention to the review of Broken
Crusts, a book of incredible twentieth century Catholic poetry by
Clifford J Laube. All those years when it seemed as though the
sparks of Catholic culture were fading away -- and here was this man,
writing on, quietly promoting Catholic literature by publishing the
work of new poets and editing serving as poetry editor of two different
Catholic magazines. Broken Crusts is just the latest of many fine books
available from Arx.
And back on the subject of Ireland, may I introduce you to the Lifezine
of Ireland, produced by a group called Family and Life. I took the
following information from their site: Welcome to LifeZine the
free bi-weekly bulletin produced by Family & Life in Ireland.
Contact at: info[at]familyandlife.org or you can view our website at
www.familyandlife.org. This Irish pro-life group really delivers the
goods. They cover the prolife news for all of Europe and I am
constantly amazed at the news they pass on. You won’t get this
information from the BBC!
And one last word on reading -- I hope you’ve been reading a lot of
good books lately! I know I have. Besides the two new
books reviewed here, I would like to mention another book I have
recently read -- a translation of Father Augustine Berthe’s
biography of Garcia Moreno. This particular editon is brought out
by Dolorosa Press and also contains some photographs and an
introduction. President Moreno of Ecuador has got to be one of
the most remarkable statesmen of recent (19th century) history, a most
unpolitically incorrect hero.
Now I’ll leave you to your own reading. I hope you enjoy this issue.
Colleen Drippe’
Updated 05-03-2008, The Invention of the Holy Cross
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