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by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2022 | All Soul's Day, Jimmy Swaggert, John Henry Newman, News, Protestantism, Purgatory, St. Catherine of Genoa, The Dispatch, The Dream of Gerontius | 0 |
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached on the Commemoration of All Souls, November 2, 2022, at Our Lady of the Atonement Church in San Antonio (Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter). Allow me […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 16, 2022 | Blessed Virgin Mary, Islam, Jesus Christ, John Henry Newman, News, rosary, Salvation, The Dispatch | 0 |
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., at the Church of the Holy Rosary, Bronx, New York, on the occasion of their patronal feast, October 6, […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 17, 2021 | Advent, Advent week 4, Christmas season, Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur, John Henry Newman, News, Picks | 0 |
Something about Advent, and the Christmas season that succeeds it (or, in the secular sphere, envelops it), draws the eye to beauty.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 15, 2021 | 2021, Archbishop Wolfgang Haas of Liechtenstein, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Columns, Fr. Peter M.J. Stravinskas, John Henry Newman, John Paul II, meetings and mischief, News, Pope Francis, Pope St. John XXIII, St. Gregory Nazianzen, St. Paul VI, Synod on Synodality, The Curse of Meetings | 0 |
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.”
The post The Curse of Meetings appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 8, 2021 | 2021, Columns, Gerard M. Hopkins, grand-daughter of General Ethan Allen, Horace Greeley, John Henry Newman, Michael Pakaluk, Mother Seton, News, Orestes A. Brownson, Robert Royal's A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century, Stephen Douglas, The Catholic Thing, William Gordon-Gorman, William Wilberforce Jr., “Converts to Rome During the XIXth Century” | 0 |
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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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 20, 2021 | Anglican Difficulties, Books, Church of England, Features, interview, John Henry Newman, News, Oxford Movement | 0 |
Edward Short is the author of Newman and his Contemporaries (2011), Newman and his Family (2013), and Newman and History (2017). His critical edition of Difficulties of Anglicans has just been published by Gracewing. He […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Baianism, Belgium, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, Correlationism, Features, Febronianism, Germany, History, Jansenism, John Henry Newman, Josephinism, News | 0 |
In a recent interview posted by CWR, Cardinal Gerhard Müller remarked: Since the eighteenth century, along with absolutism, we have even in Catholic France, Austria and Bavaria the unholy tradition of the official state church […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 23, 2021 | Apostle Paul, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jesus Christ, John Henry Newman, Jonah, News, Ninevah, Prophet, St. Gregory of Nazianzus, The Dispatch | 0 |
On the Readings for January 21, 2018 […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 27, 2020 | 2020 election, Donald Trump, Featured, Joe Biden, John Henry Newman, News, Politics, USCCB, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
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 […]
by bcadmin | Jun 22, 2020 | Art & Culture, Featured, John Henry Newman, Marian teachings / devotions, News, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
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 […]
by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2020 | Catholic Living, Coronavirus, Featured, John Henry Newman, News, Padre Pio, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Christendom has seen a plague or two in its day. On more than one occasion a worse pestilence than that which we now face has plunged the West into chaos, or brought it to a grinding halt. In every extraordinary time, however, the Church has remained semper idem and has remained, at the very least, […]
by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2020 | Catholic Living, Christ Crucified, Featured, John Henry Newman, Lent, News, Our Lady of Sorrows, Sabat Mater, Seven Dolors, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
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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