Preview of StAR's September/October Issue

 

The William Byrd Festival is in progress in Portland, Oregon with its concluding events coming up this weekend. The reason I lead off with this notice is that I have an article about Byrd and other recusant composers coming out in the September/October issue of the St. Austin Review (plus a book review).

According to Joseph Pearce, who ought to know:

The theme of the next issue of the St. Austin Review is “Recusants and Martyrs: English Resistance to the Tudor Terror”.

Highlights:
 

-Shaun Blanchard views St. Thomas More as the Ideal Christian

-Joseph Pearce connects Shakespeare and St. Thomas More

-Mark Amorose waxes poetical about Recusants

-Anne Barbeau Gardiner discovers Secret Hiding Places: Recusant Houses and Priest-Holes Made by a Saint

• Stephanie A. Mann reads between the lines in her survey of Tudor Church Music and Revisionist History

-T. Renee Kozinski looks iconically at St. Edmund Campion and the Tyburn Tree

-John Beaumont tells the tale of A Remarkable Convert Priest, Resisting the Tudor Terror

-Stephen Brady condemns The Murder of Merrie England

-Brendan King admires The Picture that Painted a Poem, explaining How an Italian Masterpiece Inspired an English Saint

-Trevor Lipscombe elegizes Our Lady’s Dowry

-Susan Treacy muses on William Byrd’s Gradualia

-M. J. Needham praises the Art of Katie Schmid in the full colour art feature

-Kevin O’Brien tackles Modern Persecution and the Catholic Church

-James Bemis checks off Schindler’s List in his ongoing survey of the Vatican’s List of “great films”

-Fr. Benedict Kiely contemplates the meaning of the priesthood

-Donald DeMarco spies A Ray of Hope for the Family in Quebec

-Michael Lichens remembers Stratford Caldecott

-Carol Anne Jones reviews Was Shakespeare Catholic? by Peter Milward

• Stephanie A. Mann reviews Catholics of the Anglican Patrimony by Aidan Nicholls

-Carol Anne Jones reviews Anne Line: Shakespeare’s Tragic Muse by Martin Dodwell

-Mark Newcomb reviews The One Thomas More by Travis Curtright

I'll post the cover as soon as it is available!