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Saturday, September 14, 2019

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

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In the September/October 2013 issue of the now-defunct OSV's  The Catholic Answer , I answered the question, "What are the feast...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Barking Abbey and Its Female Scholars

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From Eleanor Parker ( A Clerk of Oxford ) at History Today : ‘It is asked of all who hear this work that they do not revile it because a...
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Thursday, September 12, 2019

John Locke on Tolerating "Papists"

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From the Smithsonian Magazine website : Every so often an unknown letter or document signed by Locke is found, but identifying a substa...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Jesuits Land in Virginia: A Spanish Mission

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You might remember several years ago the news about graves found in the ruins of the Church of England chapel in the Jamestown Colony: the...
Monday, September 9, 2019

Newman's Four Last Things

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As promised, I'll be on the  Son Rise Morning Show  bright and early this morning (6:50 a.m. Central/ 7:50 a.m. Eastern) to talk with ...

September 9, 1587: A Catholic Martyr from Scotland

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Blessed George Douglas is one of the 85 Martyrs of England and Wales, executed on September 9, 1587. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, a...
Sunday, September 8, 2019

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Today at Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite, we will celebrate the Thirteen Sunday after Pentecost and commemorate the Nativ...
Friday, September 6, 2019

Preview: Gerontius and the Four Last Things

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Matt Swaim and I will talk about Blessed John Henry Newman's great poem about the Four Last Things: Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell...
Thursday, September 5, 2019

Bishop of London, Edmund Bonner, RIP

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Edmund Bonner, the former bishop of London (deposed by the authority of Elizabeth I), died in Marshalsea Prison on September 5, 1569. Ther...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

One of Three Greats: Pope St. Gregory the First

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Today is the feast of Pope St. Gregory the Great, born around the year 540 A.D., consecrated Pope on September 3, 590, and died on March 1...