In Memoriam: Ian Ker (1942-2022)
Fr. Ian Ker, the leading authority on the life and work of St John Henry Cardinal Newman, died in the early morning of November 5th in hospital in Gloucester, England not far from his home […]
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by bcadmin | Nov 6, 2022 | Anglicanism, Britain, C. S. Lewis, Features, Fr. Ian Ker, G.K. Chesterton, News, Special Report, St. John Henry Newman | 0 |
Fr. Ian Ker, the leading authority on the life and work of St John Henry Cardinal Newman, died in the early morning of November 5th in hospital in Gloucester, England not far from his home […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 21, 2022 | C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Gerard Manley Hopkins, News, Redemptoris Hominis, Saint John Paul II, Sinead O'Connor, T.S. Eliot, The Dispatch | 0 |
Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on April 1, 2015, and is reposted here, in slightly different form, to mark St. Pope John Paul II’s feast day, celebrated on October 22nd. ————— “We, […
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 24, 2022 | 2022, and Walker Percy – also Newman, Anglican Church the middle way, Bishop Robert Barron, Brad Miner, C. S. Lewis, Carl E. Olson "The Sacramental Vision and the Fullness of Faith", Charles Williams, Chesterton, Columns, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dorothy Sayers, Elizabeth (“Liz”) Lev, Flannery O'Connor, Jessica Hooten Wilson, Knox, News, Stacy Trasancos, T.S. Eliot, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Since entering the Catholic Church in 1997, I’ve occasionally given talks about my conversion from Protestantism to the Catholic Faith….
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 9, 2022 | C. S. Lewis, Cezanne, modernity, News, Odyssey, Roy Lichtenstein, Shakespeare, The Dispatch | 0 |
Strange as it may sound, C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) hated cars. And newspapers. And zippers. Really. What are for most of us the banal and indispensable necessities of daily life, were, for Lewis, icons of modernity. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | C. S. Lewis, contemplative prayer, COVID-19, Democratic Party, First Amendment, Guns, News, papal infallibility, Russia, The Dispatch, The Rosary, Transgender | 0 |
Short Histories – Nothing is certain in a country where the past is constantly rewritten, says Owen Matthews. The Russian enigma (The Spectator) Papal Infallibility – “A pope speaks ex cathedra when he presents some teaching […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | C. S. Lewis, Conservative Party, Features, London Metropolitan Police, Magazine, News, Police | 0 |
A decline in religion in Britain is destroying the integrity of our public institutions
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 5, 2022 | C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Fiction, Hugo Dyson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Narnia, News, Owen Barfield, The Dispatch, World War I | 0 |
Today, when we think of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, we are likely to imagine inspired storytellers, talented scholars, committed Christians—iconic men remote from the rest of us. With such gifts, many […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 15, 2022 | Abortion, Adoption, Bishop Robert McElroy, C. S. Lewis, Catholic art, Catholic literature, Eucharistic Revival, History, Nancy Pelosi, News, Philosophy, Queen Elizabeth II, Second Amendment, Stanford University, The Dispatch, Trans-sexuals | 0 |
The Philosophical Approach – They don’t teach existentialist philosophy at music school, but if they did. . . Advice to Musicians from Martin Heidegger (Ted Gioia) Raised as a Boy – The only long-term study done […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 1, 2022 | Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, C. S. Lewis, conservatism, Elon Musk, Homosexuality, News, The Dispatch, Tom Cruise, Traditional Latin Mass | 0 |
Conservative Homosexuals – Out homosexuals have insinuated themselves into the halls of conservative think tanks and publications. Are Gays Replacing Christians in the Conservative Movement (Crisis Magazine) Why McElroy? – Beyond particular…
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 24, 2022 | 2022, Billy Graham and Pope St. John Paul II, C. S. Lewis, Columns, Jesus Christ, Lewis, Max McLean, New York’s Fellowship for Performing Arts, News, Norman Stone, Randall Smith, Robert Royal, Shadowlands, The Catholic Thing, The Great Divorce, The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S, The Screwtape Letters | 0 |
It is probably the case that no Protestant author has been quoted more often by contributors to The Catholic Thing…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 5, 2022 | C. S. Lewis, Features, Film & Music, hamlet, News, Robert Eggers, Shakespeare, the lighthouse, The Northman, The Witch | 0 |
C.S. Lewis, in his preface to St. Athanasius’ On The Incarnation, wrote a brisk apologia for reading premodern authors, later published under the title “On the Reading of Old Books.” Lewis’s simple thesis is that […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 27, 2022 | Abortion, C. S. Lewis, Ketanji Brown Jackson, News, sex, Sexual Revolution, Supreme Court, The Dispatch | 0 |
Some weeks ago, as readers undoubtedly know, Supreme Court and Harvard educated nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, though a woman herself, pleaded a lack of expertise when asked to define the word “woman.” Ridicule resonated […]
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