Preview: Commentary on the Coronation on Treasures of the Faith

Tomorrow morning (Tuesday, May 23), I'll be on a radio program called Treasures of Faith on Divine Mercy Radio (WDMC, 920 AM) in Melbourne, Florida, 10:00 a.m. Central Time, 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Listen live here; the host, Mike Gisondi, will send me a link to the podcast of the show about a week later.

AND: he did send me the link for the St. Thomas More interview we conducted in March!

Tomorrow, however, we'll be talking about the recent Coronation of King Charles III and how Catholic Liturgy and Tradition was certainly reflected in the service--down to the vestments Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Church of England prelates wore. He had to borrow them from the Catholic Cathedral of Westminster, according to this story (confirmed by Lambeth Palace, the London headquarters of the Archbishop, and a spokesman from the Cathedral) because he could not access appropriate vestments for himself and the other bishops and prelates.

Mike and I will discuss various other aspects of the event, based on some of the comments I made on the Son Rise Morning Show before the Coronation and an update I posted here.

I included the cover of my magnum--and only--opus here because this has been the theme I've been studying, reading about, talking about, and writing about for the past 15 years  or so (13 years since Supremacy and Survival was published and a few years before that as I wrote and rewrote it and searched for a publisher!). 

The theme: the long-lasting consequences for not just Catholicism but for religion in England after Henry VIII's still-crucial break from Rome. And some of those signs of healing of the break except for one crucial divide: the monarch cannot be a "Roman" Catholic!

The book is readily available from Eighth Day Books here in Wichita, Kansas! And if you want me to sign it before they send, let Warren or any of the staff know and I can easily drop by and autograph it, dedicate it, etc.

Radio Interview: St. Thomas More on "Treasures of Faith"

Tomorrow morning, I'll be on a radio program called Treasures of Faith on Divine Mercy Radio (WDMC, 920 AM) in Melbourne, Florida, 10:00 a.m. Central Time, 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Listen live here; the host, Mike Gisondi, will send me a link to the podcast of the show about a week later. The reason for the interview is that it just so happened that Mr. Gisondi and I watched the recent broadcast of A Man for All Seasons on Turner Classic Movies during their "31 Days of Oscar" on March 7th. He emailed me and we set up this interview to talk about the movie and its subject, Saint Thomas More--we also want to talk about Saint John Fisher, of course.

After Saint John Henry Newman with 336 tracked posts, Saint Thomas More is the second most featured person on my blog, with 194. Many of those posts were responses to the late Hilary Mantel's traducement of More in Wolf Hall, though I have also considered Fred Zinnemann's version of Robert Bolt's depiction of More in this movie, based upon his stage play.

I look forward to another opportunity to discuss this great saint on the Friday of Passion Week, as Saint Thomas More prepared himself for his own passion and death in the Tower of London, meditating on the Agony in the Garden (De Tristitia) and the Passion (Treatise on the Passion).

Saint Thomas More, pray for us! Saint John Fisher, pray for us!