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Thursday, May 15, 2014

The Ordinariate Restart

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The Ordinary of the Our Lady of Walsingham Personal Ordinariate has called for a restart of the Ordinariate. The Tablet reports on his co...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

My Easter Mystagogy

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Now that I have finished reading Volume I of Pope Benedict XVI's Jesus of Nazareth trilogy, I am reading an old book that is experienc...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

The Black Mass at Harvard and the English Reformation

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Catholic print and social media have been reporting and commenting frequently the last several days about the planned, but cancelled, Blac...
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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Stations of the Cross in the Easter Season

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The Church of the Blessed Sacrament recently acquired and restored a set of Stations of the Cross that had once been in the Cathedral of the...
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Friday, May 9, 2014

The Tsar's Four Daughters: OTMA

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During David Lean's epic Doctor Zhivago , the doctor/poet and his family escape the city for their country estate (but have to live in t...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Happy Birthday to Thomas B. Costain!

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According to this Time Magazine article preview  from 1952: Novelist Thomas Costain has taught history to more people outside the class...

Catholic Liturgical Beauty and Anti-Catholicism

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I've read this letter from John Adams to his wife, describing the Catholic (Tridentine Rite) Mass, in which he sums up the experience:...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

The Last Years of the Last Catholic Queen Consort of England

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Queen Mary Beatrice of Modena died on May 7, 1718--after living in exile since the "Glorious" Revolution of 1688. She had known ...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

What didn't happen--per Leanda de Lisle

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Leanda de Lisle, author of Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family  (the U.S. title)...
Monday, May 5, 2014

King St. Henry VI?

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  Desmond Seward writes about the veneration of Henry VI in spite of his failings as a monarch in the April issue of the BBC History M...