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Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Compare and Contrast: More and Newman

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The Catholic World Report has published my feature article on St. Thomas More and Blessed John Henry Newman on Conscience. I based this ...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

West Gallery Music and The Oxford Movement

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The Church Times (access may be limited) posts an article about "West Gallery Music" and its decline. West Gallery Music was co...
Monday, September 4, 2017

The Gunpowder Plot Blows Up Again

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BBC One will broadcast a miniseries about the Gunpowder Plot this fall. The cast announced so far is Kit Harington as Robert Catesby, Liv...
Sunday, September 3, 2017

Another Recusant Scholar

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From   I News : They were monks who disavowed worldly possessions and are best known for their monastic scholarship and abstinence.  ...
Friday, September 1, 2017

Recusant Studies's Rising Scholars

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History Today asked Jessie Childs 20 questions and one of them was: Q. What’s the most exciting field in history today? A. Recusant his...

Choral Evensong

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From the Religion News Service, a story about how Choral Evensong is catching on in England, attracting people who otherwise don't ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

St. Margaret Ward and Companions

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I talked with Anna Mitchell on the Son Rise Morning Show yesterday and she will repeat the interview early this morning during the natio...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Blessed Richard Herst

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This martyr, a farmer with a family, was a public recusant in Lancashire. He was executed on August 29 in 1628 after a rigged trial.  Ac...
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Monday, August 28, 2017

St. Edmund Arrowsmith, SJ

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Today's English Catholic Martyr was raised in a recusant family and suffered much for his Catholic faith and his priesthood. Executed...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

The Tradition of Prejudice

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In The Catholic Herald , Professor David Paton asks , in response to a question about the Catholic Church forbidding dissection of the hu...