Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

 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...

What a telling title: our Lady of Victory . So very Western Catholic; so Counter-Reformation ; so baroque; so redolent of the triumphalist ...

 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 ...

Those of my generation may remember how, when we were a great deal younger, we were very indignant about the 'latinisation' of Easte...

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...

 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...

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 ...

 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...

 In the first half of the seventeenth century, a dramatic art form became important among the English elite and its intelligentsia. It was k...

In the old Roman Missal, in the Appendix pro Aliquibus Locis, there is (December 10) the Mass Pro Translatione Almae Domus Lauretanae i.e. ...

" ... 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...

 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...