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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Dawson on Victiorians and Catholicism

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After posting on the History Today book review yesterday, I found this essay by Christopher Dawson on ENGLISH CATHOLICISM AND VICTORIAN LIBE...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Meta-Meta-Meta History: Current Views of Victorian Views of English History

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History Today features this review of a book looking at how the Victorians looked at English history; thus it's a meta-meta-meta hist...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Blessed Richard Hurst, Executed on the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist

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This martyr, a farmer with a family, was a public recusant in Lancashire. He was executed on August 29 in 1628 after a rigged trial. Accor...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

George Sand, Chopin, and St. Augustine and St. Monica

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On a previous visit to Paris, I visited the Nouvelle Athenes area, starting with Église de la Sainte-Trinité in the 9th arrondisement, La...

All the Graces of Oxford and Cambridge!

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When I attended The Oxford Experience several years ago, I noticed they maintained a tradition of saying a very Christian grace before t...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Blessed John Henry Newman and Blessed Dominic Barberi

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  Today (in England) is the memorial of Blessed Dominic Barberi, probably best known as the Italian missionary priest who received Bles...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

This Week's Reading Assignment

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    I'm almost to Italy in this book by Jo Anne Cammarata Sylva from Newman House Press --by that I mean that John Henry Newman i...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

August 22, 1553 and 1572

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On August 22nd, 1553, John Dudley, the First Duke of Northumberland, was executed for his role in the attempted coup d'etat to place hi...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Pope St. Pius X and Frequent Communion

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Allow me to draw your attention to an article I wrote last year for the PraytheMass.org website on Pope St. Pius X and his influence on l...

Edward Short's Newman Trilogy

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Edward Short sent me this link to the T&T Clark blog about a presentation he'll be making in London this September and more informa...