An insight into the Protestant Bruderhof communities
October 8, 2020
I have just been reading a most inspiring book: uplifting both in the honest stories of the search for meaning and faith that fill...
Francis Phillips
A fable that deserves to be seriously debated
October 5, 2020
Angelico Press has published another imaginative work from their unconventional list of authors. This time it is The Gentle Traditionalist Returns, by Roger Buck....
A book for our peculiar times
October 2, 2020
Sophia Institute Press has collected a sparkling collection of the occasional essays written recently for Crisis Magazine by New York’s most well-read priest. Our...
An excellent guide to Fatima
September 24, 2020
Many people in this country don’t know about the significance of the apparitions at Fatima that took place in 1916 and 1917. Thus Fatima:...
A first-person account reminds us of the horrors of Auschwitz
September 23, 2020
It was the feast day of Saint Maximilian Kolbe on 14th August. Coincidentally, I was at Mass that morning to hear our parish priest,...
We still need St Thomas Becket’s intercession
September 22, 2020
I read William Cash’s article in the July Herald magazine, Canterbury Trails, with pleasure. I feel a slight but enduring affinity with St Thomas...
A book to remind us of the Last Things
August 25, 2020
When someone we love dies, it gives us an instantaneous and stark reminder of what mortality actually means – for us and for our...
John Lukacs’ last book is a great introduction to his mind
August 14, 2020
Recommended to me several years ago, I have at last got round to reading the late historian John Lukacs’ Last Rites, published in 2009...
A fictitious world so pessimistic it is hard to contemplate
August 14, 2020
Having blogged about Cluny Media’s 2020 republication of What I Believe by Francois Mauriac, I subsequently read a novel from their list of Cluny...
François Mauriac’s Augustinian faith
August 13, 2020
It is good news that Cluny Media has decided to republish this year François Mauriac’s classic statement of his faith, What I Believe. First...
An energetic work of apologetics
August 13, 2020
The Scandal of the Scandals: The Secret History of Christianity by Manfred Lutz (Ignatius Press), with its arresting cover image of a robed figure...
From Agnostic to Baptist to Catholic
July 31, 2020
Every story of conversion is of interest as each convert has their own unique experience of faith to relate. Nonetheless, Ian Murphy’s Dying to...
An insight into the Protestant Bruderhof communities
October 8, 2020
I have just been reading a most inspiring book: uplifting both in the honest stories of the search for meaning and faith that fill...
A fable that deserves to be seriously debated
October 5, 2020
Angelico Press has published another imaginative work from their unconventional list of authors. This time it is The Gentle Traditionalist Returns, by Roger Buck....
A book for our peculiar times
October 2, 2020
Sophia Institute Press has collected a sparkling collection of the occasional essays written recently for Crisis Magazine by New York’s most well-read priest. Our...
An excellent guide to Fatima
September 24, 2020
Many people in this country don’t know about the significance of the apparitions at Fatima that took place in 1916 and 1917. Thus Fatima:...
A first-person account reminds us of the horrors of Auschwitz
September 23, 2020
It was the feast day of Saint Maximilian Kolbe on 14th August. Coincidentally, I was at Mass that morning to hear our parish priest,...
We still need St Thomas Becket’s intercession
September 22, 2020
I read William Cash’s article in the July Herald magazine, Canterbury Trails, with pleasure. I feel a slight but enduring affinity with St Thomas...
A book to remind us of the Last Things
August 25, 2020
When someone we love dies, it gives us an instantaneous and stark reminder of what mortality actually means – for us and for our...
John Lukacs’ last book is a great introduction to his mind
August 14, 2020
Recommended to me several years ago, I have at last got round to reading the late historian John Lukacs’ Last Rites, published in 2009...
A fictitious world so pessimistic it is hard to contemplate
August 14, 2020
Having blogged about Cluny Media’s 2020 republication of What I Believe by Francois Mauriac, I subsequently read a novel from their list of Cluny...
François Mauriac’s Augustinian faith
August 13, 2020
It is good news that Cluny Media has decided to republish this year François Mauriac’s classic statement of his faith, What I Believe. First...
An energetic work of apologetics
August 13, 2020
The Scandal of the Scandals: The Secret History of Christianity by Manfred Lutz (Ignatius Press), with its arresting cover image of a robed figure...
From Agnostic to Baptist to Catholic
July 31, 2020
Every story of conversion is of interest as each convert has their own unique experience of faith to relate. Nonetheless, Ian Murphy’s Dying to...
