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Friday, May 30, 2025

More About More: Joanne Paul's "Thomas More: A Life"

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A reader of this blog sent me a copy of this review by Helen Castor in The Telegraph of Joanne Paul's new book Thomas More: A Life . Ca...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Book Review: "The Fame of Blessed Thomas More" (1929)

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Almost six years after the speeches in this book were delivered, Saint John Fisher and Saint Thomas More were canonized in Rome on May 19, 1...
Friday, May 23, 2025

From "First Things": A Review of "God Is An Englishman"

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Rhys Laverty reviews God is an Englishman*: Christianity and the Creation of England by Bijan Omrani for First Things . *Not to be confused...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Book Review: "The Controversial Thomas More"

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As I commented before, this is an important book about Saint Thomas More--whose martyrdom took place 490 years ago this July 6 and whose can...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Preview: 350th anniversary of the Apparitions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

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On Monday, May 19 we'll discuss the next great 2025 Anniversary on the Son Rise Morning: the 350th anniversary of the Apparitions of the...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Father Juan Velez is making a documentary about St. John Henry Newman!

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Just a quick post about some notices I've received from Father Juan Velez, a Newman scholar, who is making a documentary about St. John ...
Friday, May 9, 2025

Preview: The 80th Anniversaries of VE and VJ Day

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Since the Papal Conclave has concluded with the Cardinals electing a new pope--I was at Adoration before Mass at St. Paul's Wichita Stat...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Progress Report: "The Controversial Thomas More"

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I tell you what: Travis Curtright--based on the first few chapters I've read--has written an extraordinary book about Saint Thomas More...
Friday, May 2, 2025

Preview: The 30th Anniversary of "The Gospel of Life"

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In 1995, Pope Saint John Paul II issued his 11th (out of 14) Encyclical, titled Evangelium vitae ( On Human Life ), so this year we celebra...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

What I'm Reading Now: Newman Retitled

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Os Justi Press has started a new series of Theological Classics , well-prepared works, affordably priced, with introductions and other helpf...