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Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Learning Something New, Again: The Origins of a Famous Hymn

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Pope Pius XI instituted the Solemnity of Christ the King in 1925 (we covered it last year during the Son Rise Morning Show survey of anniver...
Friday, June 5, 2026

Preview: Keble's Poem on Trinity Sunday

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On June 1 Anna Mitchell and I started our series on John Keble's The Christian Year , commenting on how much Saint John Henry Newman ap...
Tuesday, June 2, 2026

From "The New Criterion": Shakespeare's Plays and His Creed (?)

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It may be behind a paywall for non-subscribers, so I apologize, but I found this archived article (a review by Paul Dean of A Will to Belie...
Friday, May 29, 2026

Preview: John Keble's "The Christian Year" on the Son Rise Morning Show

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Anna Mitchell of the Son Rise Morning Show suggested we start a series on a work by a man who influenced Saint John Henry Newman in his ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Saint Phillip Neri and Saint John Henry Newman

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This has been quite a week and a day--from Monday, May 18, when I heard, while attending my godson's promotion dinner (to high school), ...
Friday, May 22, 2026

Learning Something New Every Day! What, Yet Again? Queen Victoria's Neutrality!

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The Son Rise Morning Show will be airing a "best-of" program on Monday, May 25, Memorial Day, so I've moved my "Learning ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Learning Something New Every Single Day! Again!

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Something I did not know, or don't think I've ever known: Henry Adams, the author of Mount Saint Michel and Chartres and The Educat...
Friday, May 15, 2026

Preview: Saint John Henry Newman on the Paraclete

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In this Eastertide/Ascensiontide season, we are celebrating many youthful, incipient, and transitional things: Weddings (none/few during Len...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

"Waugh is me!": Reading Evelyn Waugh on Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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"By birth, Mrs [sic] Rossetti was half Italian and wholly pedagogic." (p. 10)* "He learned some Latin and a little Greek....
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Friday, May 8, 2026

Preview: Saint John Henry's Meditation on the Ascension of Our Lord

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On Monday, May 11, we'll look at some excerpts from Saint John Henry Newman's "Meditations on Christian Doctrine" on the S...