tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post722209346484302253..comments2024-03-27T17:29:51.954+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: A Retiring Priest ... and the Olive TreeFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-58423011444555357792022-03-13T15:23:59.773+00:002022-03-13T15:23:59.773+00:00All three of his books ( Mitre and Crook , Judith...All three of his books ( <i>Mitre and Crook </i>, <i>Judith's Marriage </i> and <i>St Edmund: King and Martyr </i> are excellent, though the first is probably the best, because he's not so good at writing naturalistic dialogue, of which there's a lot in <i>Judith's Marriage</i>. He also wrote some superb articles for <i>Christian Order </i> in the days when it was edited by Fr Sue Simshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05976537787708670241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-31089806598023742452022-03-13T03:11:26.770+00:002022-03-13T03:11:26.770+00:00I will be ordering Father Houghton's autobiogr...I will be ordering Father Houghton's autobiography soon. I highly recommend his "Mitre and Crook," which I read decades ago: most engaging and illuminating. What a fine priest and courageous man he had to have been. May his dear soul rest in the glory of Christ.coradcorloquiturhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07125381369456761748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-14351808877347620862022-03-10T10:07:20.956+00:002022-03-10T10:07:20.956+00:00Neville Shute in his autobiography noted how certa...Neville Shute in his autobiography noted how certain officers at the Admiralty were exceptionally brave when it came to difficult decisions. In almost every case, it turned out that they had private wealth and could afford to resign in protest at a disastrous decision without bringing ruin on their families. Other officers were as brave as lions and would have risked their lives in a night attackBill Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06490443795561210965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-2592222165181517322022-03-09T23:28:03.851+00:002022-03-09T23:28:03.851+00:00To be fair to Bishop Parker of Northampton, 1964 w...To be fair to Bishop Parker of Northampton, 1964 was before the reformers had really got going. The 1964 changes were an irritant, certainly, but few Catholics were aware of the weirdness of what was going on in Germany, and few of the E&W episcopacy had any sense of the Bugnini horrors in store, (and even Paul VI did not anticipate them). When they came to pass in 1969, I cannot recall a John Vaschttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00335331585265267754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-60223962862084962322022-03-09T22:26:45.605+00:002022-03-09T22:26:45.605+00:00Thank you most kindly, Father, for reminding me of...Thank you most kindly, Father, for reminding me of this memoir I intended to read, and have now ordered. Fr Houghton's 1979 epistolary satire 'Mitre and Crook' also looks like a prospectively rewarding read. Have you perhaps already penned a review? If not, it might be a subject worthy of your sense of fine irony...seemingly very much akin to Houghton's...John Vaschttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00335331585265267754noreply@blogger.com