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Monday, November 7, 2016

Today, on my "National Catholic Register" Blog

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Back to English Reformation subject matter! Today, my National Catholic Register blog features a discussion of the theological virtue Hop...
Sunday, November 6, 2016

Heidi's Ugly Cakes

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So yesterday I posted on the strange story of a group of Cubs baseball fans unable to use their cellphones to find out what was happening...
Saturday, November 5, 2016

Cubs Fans without Radios

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This is an outlier post, I know, but something in a Wall Street Journal story about the Chicago Cubs caught my eye. Writer Jason Gay descri...
Friday, November 4, 2016

The English Martyrs Chapel on the Feast of Simon and Jude

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The Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Cardinal Nichols, preached at the blessing of the newly decorated chapel dedicated to the Forty Marty...

A Suppressed Holy Week From the Former Soviet Union

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The BBC Music Magazine has chosen The Clarion Choir's recording of Maximilian Steinburg's Passion Week from Naxos as its Chora...
Thursday, November 3, 2016

Cutting and Pasting and "Marking the Hours"

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Peter Kwasniewski has a post over at the New Liturgical Movement blog with pictures of an Altar Missal with the changes being made in the...
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Newman's Angels and All Souls' Day

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Please see my blog post at the National Catholic Register , scheduled to appear this morning here . It's all about Blessed John Henr...

Blesseds John Slade and Bodey, Lay Martyrs

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John Slade was executed on October 30 and John Bodey or Body (as Challoner names him) executed on All Souls Day, November 2, 1583 for bein...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

And in Post-Reformation England, Even More True

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Amy Welborn writes for The Catholic Herald on how the Reformation did not so much help but hindered the influence of women in religious ...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Three Days and the Four Last Things

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From All Hallows Eve, through All Saints Day, and then on All Souls Day, the Catholic Church is focused on the Four Last Things on these ...