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Thursday, June 12, 2014

The Heart of Newman: John F. Crosby on Newman's Personalism

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From Catholic University of America Press  this August: It has been said that John Henry Newman "stands at the threshold of the new...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

"The Real Tudors" @ The National Portrait Gallery in London

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The title of this exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London is intriguing:   The Real Tudors: Kings and Queens Rediscovered...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Preview of the July/August Issue of StAR

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Joseph Pearce previews the next issue of the St. Austin Review , and you might guess at my interest in the issue by the title (and the li...
Monday, June 9, 2014

"Tudors v. Stuarts" or "Crown of Thistles"

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Deep as I am in Jessie Childs' God's Traitors , reading about the Babington Plot and the Vaux family connections to the eponymous ...
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Sunday, June 8, 2014

Two Sophias of Hanover

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Sophia of Hanover, Electress of the Palatinate and heiress to the throne of the Kingdom of Great Britain since 1707 (named heiress to Quee...
Saturday, June 7, 2014

The Song at the Scaffold on CatholicFiction.net

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This is my week for book reviews. Catholic Fiction.net published my review of Gertrud von Le Fort's The Song at the Scaffold . As you m...
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"That Lady" and Kate O'Brien

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I happened to see a facebook post that featured a picture from a film about St. Teresa of Avila with the Princess of Eboli standing next t...
Friday, June 6, 2014

The Norbertines in England, Pre and Post Dissolution

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June 6 is the memorial of St. Norbert of Xanten , founder of the Premonstratiensian Order also called--what a relief--the Norbertines. Th...

Reagan at Normandy, Thirty Years Ago Today

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The Wall Street Journal published President Ronald Reagan's speeches at the 40th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944--both "The B...

Queen Christina Abdicates to Become Catholic

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Queen Christina of Sweden abdicated the throne on June 6, 1654. I read Veronica Buckley's 2005 biography of Queen Christina when it ca...