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Collective Punishment: Open Letter to Latin Mass Catholics – Part I
"Are you not trying to be Catholics in a church which doesn’t want you?"
The Greatest City on Earth: Theodoric in Constantinople 461-71
"It is not fitting that the Emperor should be bound to do the bidding of any of his subjects, especially when by his compliance he injures the state!" Image: The Theodosian Walls at Constantinople, Wiki Commons CC (Source) Theodoric in Constantinople In the previous instalment of this series, we saw that Theodoric the Amal, at the age …
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Barbarian and Roman: The Early Life of Theodoric the Great
"The western half of the empire had been found wanting in the day of its trial, the eastern half had weathered the storm" We ended the last instalment of this series where this one begins, with the birth of the boy who would become known to history as Theodoric the Great.
Bishop Ullathorne’s vindication of Newman’s writings on Our Lady
"He brought from Rome what he found in Rome" The WM Review is pleased to publish a fascinating letter written by Bishop William Bernard Ullathorne, in defence of John Henry Newman’s writings on the Blessed Virgin Mary in his 1866 work Letter to Pusey. Ullathorne was the Bishop of Birmingham, the diocese in which Newman lived and ministered.
Portrait of a Pope: The Reign of Odovacer in Italy
"For the great mass of the inhabitants of Italy, the old order of things remained unchanged." Image: The Consummation, Thomas Cole, (Wiki Commons CC). The city of Rome was still prosperous in the fifth century. In the previous part of this series on St Gregory the Great we looked briefly at the events leading up …
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Portrait of a Pope: St Gregory the Great and the End of Imperial Rome
"Where is the Senate? Where the People? The very buildings we behold crumbling around us." Image: The Favourites of Honorius, John William Waterhouse, (source). The city of Rome was still flourishing in the fourth century. In the autumn of AD 590, as a Lombard army marched on Rome and as the city tried to recover …
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