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Friday, December 24, 2021

Book Review: Proust's Defense of Gothic Cathedrals

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From Wiseblood Books : "Suppose for a moment that Catholicism had been dead for centuries, that the traditions of its worship had been ...
Friday, December 17, 2021

"Rorate Caeli Desuper" and "Ne irascaris, Domine"

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On the First Saturday of December (12/4), the Saturday of the First Week of Advent, I attended an early morning Mass, a "Rorate Caeli...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Blog Tour for "My Queen, My Love" by Elena Maria Vidal

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My friend Elena Maria Vidal asked me to "blurb" her latest historical novel, the first in a trilogy on the life of Henrietta Maria...
Friday, December 3, 2021

Father Kapaun Coming Home: Where is Home?

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Visiting one of our local bookstores, I glimpsed the cover of The Journal , a quarterly publication of the Kansas Leadership Center. The cov...
Thursday, December 2, 2021

Father Nathaniel Bacon, Alias Southwell

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According to the Catholic Encyclopedia , Father Nathaniel Bacon adopted the alias of Southwell, I would presume in homage to the great Jesui...
Monday, November 29, 2021

Book Review: "Dog Songs", Poems by Mary Oliver

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On the last Saturday of November, I went to Eighth Day Books to buy a certain book ( Thoughts Matter by Mary Margaret Funk) and find some C...
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Friday, November 19, 2021

Preview: Venerable Edward Mico, SJ on the Son Rise Morning Show

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On Monday, November 22, I'll talk with Matt Swaim or Anna Mitchell about another of the Venerable English Catholic martyrs on the Son Ri...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

The Scribe Eleazar and Another English Martyr!

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So I was watching the EWTN Daily Mass  yesterday as I do every morning. Father Joseph celebrated the Mass for the Weekday (not choosing eith...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Eleazar the Scribe and Saints John Fisher and Thomas More

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Today at Mass, the first reading is from the Second Book of Maccabees, chapter 6:18-31. This passage recounts the martyrdom of Eleazar the S...
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Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Some Notes on Newman's Developing View of The Church

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From The Newman Review , Pablo Blanco (PhD '97, ThD '05), who teaches at the University of Navarra, writes about Newman's develo...