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Friday, October 31, 2014

Hope Springs Eternal--Even During Fall

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A journalist has noted that journalists just don't understand the Catholic Church and don't write about us honestly--in Time Magazin...

Fasting on Halloween? No Candy?

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What a scary thought!  Halloween as we know it now is a night for gathering candy and sweets, dressing up in ghoulish costumes, and watchi...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

P.D. James' Fan Fiction: "Death Comes to Pemberley"

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P.D. James apologizes to Jane Austen for writing this pastiche, a mystery novel sequel to Pride and Prejudice . Perhaps she should have ap...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Pope Benedict Appreciates the Ordinariate's Appreciation

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According to the Friends of the Ordinariate website , they've received a letter from Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI in response to a tha...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

The Wrong Lizzie

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I watched part one of  Death Comes to Pemberley this Sunday, the BBC adaptation of P.D. James' mystery novel Austen pastiche. The act...
Monday, October 27, 2014

American Jacobites? "The Royalist [American] Revolution"

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From Harvard University Press : G enerations of students have been taught that the American Revolution was a revolt against royal tyrann...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Von Hildebrand's Battle Against Hitler

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A major publication by Image Books and the Hildebrand Project : How does a person become Hitler’s enemy number one? Not through espionag...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Books ARE Glorious!

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A Clerk of Oxford translates an ode to books from an Old English poem: 'Books are glorious. They abundantly proclaim the appoint...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Katherine Parr's Only Baby, Another Tudor Mystery

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Linda Porter wrote about Katherine Parr's baby girl, named Mary after Henry VIII's eldest daughter, for History Today in 2011. Mar...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Robert Hugh Benson, RIP

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I missed posting a notice of the anniversary of Robert Hugh Benson's death last Sunday (October 19; he died in 1914), but want to make...