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Friday, October 24, 2025

Preview: 25th Anniversary of St. Thomas More as Patron Saint of Politicians

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Twenty-five years ago, Pope Saint John Paul II proclaimed Saint Thomas More the Patron Saint of Politicians and Statesmen, so we will rememb...
Friday, October 17, 2025

Preview: 100th Anniversary of "Quas Primas" and the Feast of Christ the King

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On the 11th of December in 1925 Pope Pius XI issued his encyclical Quas Primas explaining the reasons for establishing the Feast of Christ ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Book Review: Blessed Germain Gardiner on John Frith

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The editor of this book, Boone W. Larson, contacted me and offered to send me a copy to read and review, because I have posted in the past a...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Preview: 120th Anniversary of R.H. Benson's "The King's Achievement"

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The King's Achievement , Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson's historical novel about the Dissolution of the Monasteries, was published in ...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Preview: The 180th Anniversary of Newman's Conversion

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Next Thursday, October 9, is Saint John Henry Newman's Feast Day, celebrated as a Feast at Masses in England and as an Obligatory Memori...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Preview: The Restoration of the Hierarchy/the Gorham Judgment/Anglican Difficulties: 1850

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One hundred and seventy five years ago, three events in England now offer some context to the history of religion in England for us to consi...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Book Review: "Weep, Shudder, Die" by Dana Gioia

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I enjoy listening to, watching, and reading about opera. When I was little my grandparents--and later my parents--had the two volume Lincoln...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Preview: Henriëtte Bosmans and "Lead, Kindly Light" in 1945

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I had never heard of Henriëtte Bosmans until earlier this month! And I certainly did not know that she had composed a work for soprano and e...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Preview: Fifteen Years Ago, Newman's Beatification

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Earlier this month, King Charles III visited the Birmingham Oratory in honor of Saint John Henry Newman being named a Doctor of the Catholic...
Friday, September 5, 2025

Preview: The Composition and Publication of the "Dream of the Gerontius" in 1865

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Before Edward Elgar set the text of Newman's Dream of Gerontius to music in 1900, of course, Newman had written that eloquent poem abou...