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Category: John Henry Newman

The Curse of Meetings

Fr. Stravinskas: The future Paul VI said of John XXIII’s call for Vatican II: “This holy old boy doesn’t realize what a hornet’s nest he’s stirring up.”

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“Converts to Rome During the XIXth Century”

Michael Pakaluk on some notable persons in Britain and American Catholic converts. For this to happen now, we must be models of the Faith.

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For Catholics, There’s Only One Choice

As the grandson of immigrants, I was raised to think that to be Catholic automatically meant being a Democrat; after all, it was the Democratic Party that had been so involved in assisting the newly-arrived with possibilities for financial security and upward mobility. The first presidential election in which I could vote (as a seminarian […]

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The Marian Heart of John Henry Newman

Meditations on the Litany of Loreto for the Month of May By John Henry Newman, edited by Peter M. J. Stravinskas. Newman House Press USA 2019 John Henry Newman: saint, poet, theologian, pastor, and unseen father of the Second Vatican Council…we sing his beautiful hymns, and we read his Apologia pro Vita Sua, and more. But […]

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Joining Our Lady at the Foot of the Cross

Very early in this Lent of 2020, we celebrate a votive Mass, which invites us to take our place at the foot of the Cross with the Mother of Sorrows. Popular piety has identified seven “dolors” of the Blessed Virgin: the prophecy of Simeon; the flight into Egypt; the loss of the Boy Jesus; the […]

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