Was Newman 'very friendly' with Baron von Hügel? Image: Wiki Commons (here) and Wikipedia (here) This is Part III. Click for Part I and Part II. This is an addendum to the previous pieces critiquing Bishop Sanborn’s indefensible comments about Cardinal Newman, made in a reaction video made in November 2022. In this video, the bishop …
Is it true to say Newman saw conscience as an 'internet connection to heaven'? Image: Wiki Commons This is Part II. See Part I here and Part III here. In the previous piece, I began analysing the claims made by Bishop Donald Sanborn in a reaction video published by his seminary’s YouTube channel.[1] This video …
Is it true to say ‘that [Newman's] idea of conscience is precisely modernist’? Image: Wiki Commons This is Part I. See Part II here and Part III here. Recently, Bishop Donald Sanborn published, via his seminary’s YouTube channel, a reaction video to an interview between Bishop Robert Barron and Ben Shapiro. This reaction video featured …
"If in Sodom had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto this day." Image: Wiki Commons. This is an expanded extract taken from the article Possible Miracles, Possible Deception. Miracles as proof of Christ’s revelation In the Gospel for the Third Sunday of Lent, Our Lord condemns …
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"The Church of Christ cannot be subject to any external power." Image: Vasnetsov's Last Judgment. The feast of Christ the King was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 to commemorate Our Lord’s Kingship, not just over the hearts of his Faithful, but rather over every man, family, state, nation, and society. In this article …
Continue reading “Are you a King, then?” – Christendom and the Social Kingship of Christ
"This Anglican disunity was formerly held to be ridiculous by Catholics, and a lack of one of the four marks." Image: "High Mass" at Pusey House, an Anglo-Catholic establishment and chapel in Oxford. Wiki Commons. Having been edified the account in Mgr Robert Hugh Benson’s The Religion of the Plain Man, of what the Church …
Continue reading The Anglicanisation of Catholics – are we the “high-church wing”?
"It is enough to arouse reflection, stir the heart, stimulate the will, and call forth zeal." Image: The WM Review Continuing on from the reviews of The Cenacle Press editions of Marmion's Christ in His Mysteries and Benson's Christ in the Church, I'm excited to share pictures and details about another recently released book – …
"We are supposed to conclude that anyone so attacked by such an apparent pillar of orthodoxy must have been in the wrong." Image: Orestes Brownson, Wiki Commons. With all quotes below, line breaks have been liberally added for readability. In a previous article, I quoted American convert Orestes Brownson critiquing the writing and person of …
Continue reading Orestes Brownson is not a credible critic of John Henry Newman – here’s why
"He shall be cast forth as a branch and shall wither." Photo by Manuel Sardo on Unsplash. This is an expanded extract from a previous essay, 'Tradivox Part IV: Why is it essential that the Church is visibly united in faith?' Vines, Broken Branches and the unity of the Church Unity and being In previous …
"... and the world may know that thou hast sent me." Image: Wiki Commons CC. This is an extract from an earlier essay available here. The Prayer of Our Lord before the Passion In the Gospel of St John, Our Lord prays in terms which present the Church’s unity as a visible motive for belief in him …
Continue reading Short essay: The Agony in the Garden and the unity of the Church