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Winter 2026 · 60 Pages

Magnalia — Issue One

The inaugural issue of the journal of Catholic cultural renewal in Canada.

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Table of Contents

4 Editor's Welcome
5 Letters to the Editor
10 Opinions
21 Interview
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C.S. Lewis and the Fathers

What the Inklings' most famous convert learned from the Church Fathers — and what modern readers can still discover there.

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Heart Speaks to Heart

The Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto on Newman's motto, the life of the mind, and the renewal of Catholic culture in Canada.

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Irrigating the New Deserts

The case for Catholic institution-building in an age of cultural drought — and a roadmap for how to begin.

46
The Nursery Rhyme Metaphysic

How the imaginative world of childhood verse encodes deep truths about reality — and why it matters for classical education.

51
AI and the Future of Humanity

A Catholic philosopher confronts the promises and perils of artificial intelligence for human dignity and the common good.

57
The Great Tradition

A curated reading list and guide to the texts that shaped Western Christian civilization.

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Northern Lights

Dispatches, reviews, and cultural commentary from across Canada.

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