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Sunday, November 11, 2018

Religion and The Great War

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Also in keeping with the theme of the Centennial of the Armistice of World War I, Philip Jenkins' book , The Great and Holy War: How ...

Armistice Celebrations, 1918

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History Today posts this article about how the British celebrated on November 11, 1918, including in church services--and how church bell...
Thursday, November 8, 2018

Starting "Thursday" on Friday

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Our local American Chesterton Society will start The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare on Friday at Eighth Day Books (beginning at 6:30 p...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Bishop John Carroll (SJ) Appointed

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As the History Channel  website  reminds us: On this day in 1789, Pope Pius VI appoints John Carroll bishop of Baltimore, making him the...
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Sunday, November 4, 2018

Newman and Converts Today

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The Provost of the Birmingham Oratory, Father Julian Large, has written in his November Letter about how converts to Catholicism someti...
Saturday, November 3, 2018

"Little Women" and the Holy Rosary

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Earlier this year I submitted an essay for a collection of essays commemorating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Little Women ...
Friday, November 2, 2018

A Lay Martyr's Last Words: "Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus".

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"Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus": Jesus, Jesus, be to me a Savior. John Bodey or Body (as Challoner names him) was executed on Al...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Halloween and Grave Thoughts

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On Tuesday, October 10, 2017, I started this reflection: By the end of the first week in October the graveyards were poppi...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

The Gypsy Priest and the English Civil War

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I just finished reading Elizabeth Goudge's The White Witch, a historical novel set during the English Civil War. The publisher, Hendri...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

John of Salisbury, RIP and St. Thomas a Becket

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John of Salisbury , English bishop and associate of St. Thomas a Becket and Nicholas Breakspear (the only Briton to be elected pope, as...