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Friday, March 25, 2022

Preview: Mary's "Good Part" and Martha's Due

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On Monday, March 28, I'll continue the Son Rise Morning Show series of reflections on Lenten sermons by Saint John Henry Newman edited ...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Preview: Newman on "Times of Private Prayer"

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We know from his works that Saint John Henry Newman, as an Anglican and as a Catholic, was a man of prayer, both liturgical (public) and pri...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

From Insult to Praise: "Hot, Holy Ladies" at Stonyhurst College

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From the Jesuits in England: Jesuit Collections is proud to present an exciting new exhibition that reveals the hidden histories of Britain’...
Friday, March 11, 2022

Preview: Newman on Self-Denial on the Son Rise Morning Show

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On  Monday, March 14, we'll continue our discussion of Newman's Lenten sermons/meditations  on the  Son Rise Morning Show .  We'...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Schiller's "Maria Stuart" at Newman University

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My sister and I went to an adaptation of Friedrich Schiller's romantic play, Maria Stuart (the source for Donizetti's opera) at New...
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Friday, March 4, 2022

Preview: "Surrender to God" on the Son Rise Morning Show

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I suppose it has struck many persons as very remarkable, that in the latter times the strictness and severity in religion of former ages has...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Preview: "Fasting a Source of Trial" on the Son Rise Morning Show

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On Monday, February 28, we'll continue our discussions of seasonal sermons of Saint John Henry Newman, now moving into the Season of Len...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

My "Newman Week"

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Last week was really a Newman week for me--but one event had to be postponed because of icy and snowy weather. It seems like our weeks here ...
Friday, February 18, 2022

Cardinal Acton, Named In Pectore

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On February 18, 1839, Pope Gregory XVI named Charles Januaris Acton (John Dalton-Acton, Baron Acton's uncle) a Cardinal In Pectore (in ...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

Newman and Quinquagesima Sunday on the Son Rise Morning Show

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On Monday, February 21--which just happens to be the 221st anniversary of Saint John Henry Newman's birth in the City of London--Matt Sw...