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by bcadmin | Nov 17, 2022 | Books, Doctrine, Edward Gibbon, Edward Pusey, Features, Francis Newman, History, Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, Matthew Levering, News, Richard Hurrell Fourde, Scripture, St. John Henry Newman, Word On Fire | 0 |
Less than ten years after Anglican clergyman John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism, Pope Pius IX in 1854 issued the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, which declared, as Catholic dogma, that Mary, by God’s grace, was […]
Read Moreby 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 16, 2022 | 2022, Brad Miner, Brad Miner's "Two Masses", Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Eucharistic Procession through Manhattan, Fr. Roger Landry, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Michael Warsaw, Napa Institute, Napa Institute founder Tim Busch, News, Pope Francis, St. John Henry Newman, St. Patrick's Church in New Orlenas, The Catholic Thing, Traditional Latin Mass | 0 |
My wife and I were in New Orleans recently, a Thursday to Monday trip that included two parties in celebration…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 15, 2022 | Blessed Pius IX, Catholic news, Dei Filius, First Vatican Council, News, Pastor aeternus, St. John Henry Newman, The Dispatch, Vatican | 0 |
A contemporary depiction of the First Vatican Council. / public domain
Denver Newsroom, Oct 15, 2022 / 10:00 am (CNA).
The First Vatican Council, held in 1869 and 1870 and left unfinished due to the capture of Rome, is regarded as the fore…
by bcadmin | Oct 12, 2022 | 2022, Cardinal Newman, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, gaudium de veritate, Gaudium et spes, John Henry Newman's "The Idea of a University", Jonathan Haidt, Michael Pakaluk, Michael Pakaluk's "Truth is the Telos of a Catholic University", News, Saint Augustine, search for truth, St. John Henry Newman, The Catholic Thing, truth is telos, truth through revelation | 0 |
Is truth the telos of a Catholic university? I’m using telos here the way social scientist Jonathan Haidt does in…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | 1962, ecumenical council, Features, History, Liturgy, modernity, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Second Vatican Council, St. John Henry Newman | 0 |
October 11th marks the sixtieth anniversary of the formal opening of the Second Vatican Council. In the lead-up to that day in 1962, my fifth-grade teacher, Sister Regina Rose (who just died last year at […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 29, 2022 | charity, Jesus Christ, News, Pope St. John Paul II, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, St. John Henry Newman, The Dispatch, The Good Samaritan, Veritatis Splendor | 0 |
Strangely, this parable of the Good Samaritan, familiar to us from childhood, makes no appearance in the three-year Sunday cycle of the lectionary of the Ordinary Form of the Mass – although it does appear […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 23, 2022 | 1 Cor 4:9-14, 2022, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, evangelical poverty, feast of St. Rose of Lima August 23, Fr. Peter M.J. Stravinskas, Fr. Peter M.J. Stravinskas' "The Food That Is Needful", Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace”, News, St. John Henry Newman, St. Rose of Lima School Freehold New Jersey, St. Rose of Lima School Newark New Jersey, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
The Church honors the memory of St. Rose of Lima on August 23. I confess to a particular affection for…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 8, 2022 | infidelity, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Lazarus, News, St. John Henry Newman, The Dispatch, weeps | 0 |
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached on the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (EF), August 7, 2022, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. Only twice in the entire New Testament do […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 8, 2022 | 2022, American politics, American society, anno Domini 2022, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Emperor Nero, Jesus Christ, News, persecution of Christians, Pope Francis, Robert Royal, Robert Royal’s “On Not Losing Heart”, St. John Henry Newman, T. S. Eliot’s “Choruses from the Rock”, Tacitus, the American Church, The Catholic Thing, The Vatican, Youssef Fakhouri | 0 |
The editor of a Catholic publication anno Domini 2022 often receives insightful messages from readers, friends, even enemies – some…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 20, 2022 | Anglicanism, Chesterton Academy, conversion, EWTN, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, News, St. John Henry Newman, The Dispatch | 0 |
When G.K. Chesterton was received into the Catholic Church one hundred years ago, on Sunday, July 30, 1922, it was big news. Except it wasn’t. It didn’t quite qualify as “news” because nobody knew about […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 19, 2022 | 2022, Anselm of Canterbury's ontological proof, Blaise Pascal, Brad Miner, Brad Miner's "To Live Is to Choose", Columns, God’s grace, Is 64:3 and 1Cor 2:9-10, News, Pascal's Pensées, Pascal’s wager, Rem viderunt causam non viderunt, St. John Henry Newman, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Catholic Thing, wager gin that God exists | 0 |
I was reading the description in a very fine novel of a death and burial when the thought crossed my…
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