Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment
1 October 2023
Two lungs, one breath.
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Any fule doe kno that ... on 7 October 1571, thousands of slaves were liberated from the Turkish War Galleys when Don John of Austria def...
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30 September 2023
Our Lady of Victory and the Blavatnik School of Government
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What a telling title: our Lady of Victory . So very Western Catholic; so Counter-Reformation ; so baroque; so redolent of the triumphalist ...
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29 September 2023
LITTLE ANGELS
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One of the horrors of our society ... I don't know if this is peculiar to Blighty ... is the murder, apparently for sexual motives, of ...
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28 September 2023
The Evils of Latinisation: chaos in Kerala
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Those of my generation may remember how, when we were a great deal younger, we were very indignant about the 'latinisation' of Easte...
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27 September 2023
More on Indulgences
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Perhaps I am not the only person with a soft spot for those Indulgences, plenary and partial, provided in the [old] Missal for the Thanksgiv...
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26 September 2023
Inigo Jones
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I am not an admirer of Sir Christopher Wren. I would recommend anybody who is tempted to such admiration to read Howard Colvin's exposi...
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25 September 2023
Refugees
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Evelyn Waugh, who had some experience of the chaotic end of World War II, gives an account of a cargo of escaping refugees. "There was ...
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24 September 2023
The Glory of Chastity (2)
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A few decades ago, Blair Worsden wondered how far the ideology of the Stuart Court extended in the Society of the 1630s. Indeed. Readers wi...
23 September 2023
The Glory of Chastity (1)
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In the first half of the seventeenth century, a dramatic art form became important among the English elite and its intelligentsia. It was k...
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22 September 2023
Mass of our Lady of Walsingham
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In the old Roman Missal, in the Appendix pro Aliquibus Locis, there is (December 10) the Mass Pro Translatione Almae Domus Lauretanae i.e. ...
21 September 2023
Vigilavi ad postes ... the secrets of her House
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" ... Loretto; no wonder our Lady chose this spot for the resting-place of the Holy House, a town in which peace and joy and poverty re...
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20 September 2023
Mysterious Middlesbrough
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In his Advent Volume, Dom Gueranger tells us in which provinces the Feast of the Translation of the Holy House of Loretto had an official p...
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