Today we commence the Catholic letters from Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson’s Spiritual Letters of Monsignor R. Hugh Benson to One of his Converts (1915). First of all, as a preface […]
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Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson’s Spiritual Letters (Part III)
This is the third part of my review of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson’s Spiritual Letters of Monsignor R. Hugh Benson to One of his Converts, Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1915. […]
Read moreMons R.H. Benson, “Spiritual Letters” (Part II)
We are continuing our reading of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson’s Spiritual Letters of Monsignor R. Hugh Benson to One of his Converts. We are considering the Anglican Letters. We have […]
Read moreJ.H. Newman, “The Tamworth Reading Room,” (review, second and final part)
The real issue which St JHN addressed in “The Tamworth Reading Room” was, what education is needed to lift and improve ordinary people? What areas should be on the agenda […]
Read moreJ.H. Newman, “The Tamworth Reading Room,” Review (Part I)
“The Tamworth Reading Room,” pp.254-305 in Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects, edited with an introduction and notes by Gerard Tracey and James Tolhurst, Birmingham Oratory Millennium Edition, 2004. The […]
Read moreReview, “The Organic Development of the Liturgy”
Review of The Organic Development of the Liturgy, Alcuin Reid, 2nd edition, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 2005 (311 pages, plus appendices, bibliography, and index) This is an estimable volume, with […]
Read moreReview of Taylor Marshall “The Eternal City”
The Eternal City, Taylor Marshall, St John Press, Dallas, 2012 (196 pages, two appendices, bibliography and index) This is the third and final volume in the series The Origins of […]
Read moreReview of Taylor Marshall, “The Crucified Rabbi”
Taylor Marshall, The Crucified Rabbi: Judaism and the Origins of Catholic Christianity, St John Press, Dallas, 2009 (204 pp, plus appendix of Prophecies Fulfilled by the Lord, bibliography, and index) […]
Read moreReview of Matt Walsh, Church of Cowards (Third and Final Part)
Part two of my review of Matt Walsh’s Church of Cowards was, in parts, a meditation on Walsh’s insights. This third and final part will be more of a traditional […]
Read more“Church of Cowards,” Matt Walsh, Review (Pt II, “Judgment”)
This is the second of a three part review of this book. I won’t recap Part One. I will just leap into it. The book is really an essay on […]
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