Pages

▼
Friday, July 25, 2025

Preview: A 475th anniversary, +Abbot John Reeve, and the Fenn Brothers

›
On Monday, July 28, with the excuse of the 475th anniversary of the founding of one of King Edward VI's Grammar Schools, we'll discu...
Friday, July 18, 2025

Preview: 140 Years of Perpetual Adoration in Sacre-Coeur

›
On August 1, 2025, the Basilica of Sacre-Coeur will celebrate 140 years of Perpetual Adoration. To prepare for the anniversary, the basilica...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Preview: Anniversaries of Two Martyrs in England and Ireland

›
(The candle marks the spot where the great shrine of Saint Thomas of Canterbury once stood, destroyed by Henry VIII's command in 1538, w...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Stumbling Upon Words from Maeterlinck in a Book about Chesterton

›
As I was reading a selection ("Destiny's Pursuit") from David Fagerberg's Chesterton is Everywhere  (which I bought at Eig...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Preview: Summer Reading Suggestions on Monday

›
Some regulars on the Son Rise Morning Show have been offering their summer reading suggestions and I offered to make mine on Monday, June 30...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Preview: Pope Leo XIII to English Catholics in 1895

›
On Monday, June 23 we'll discuss another great anniversary on the Son Rise Rise Morning Show: the 130th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII...
Friday, June 13, 2025

Preview: 2025 Anniversaries: Fisher and More, Canonized

›
Ninety years ago, Pope Pius XI presided over the canonizations of John Cardinal Fisher and Sir Thomas More in Vatican City on May 19, 1935. ...
Friday, June 6, 2025

2025 Anniversaries: Fisher and More, 490 Years Ago

›
As we resume our 2025 anniversaries series on the Son Rise Morning Show, the first of two significant anniversaries for Saint John Fisher an...
Friday, May 30, 2025

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

›
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)

›
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...