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Lessons From the Archives

Dorothy Sayers Criticizes Rerum Novarum

June 22, 2021

Describing her as “a distinguished Anglican writer,” the Catholic Herald asked the mystery novelist and playwright Dorothy Sayers to contribute to a forum on the fiftieth anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum. A note at the end warned readers that the article had been taken over the telephone and might include “deviations from Miss

Lessons From the Archives

June 20, 2021

“Lessons From the Archives” offers article taken from the Catholic Herald’s unparalleled archives, mostly but not entirely on the state and the future of the Catholic Church. Note that not everything that will be posted here is necessarily something the editors today agree with. It’s an historical source as well as an theological, apologetic, and devotional

A Russian Catholic Hero Who Resisted the Czar and the Communists

June 19, 2021

The czarist government had sent him to jail in Siberia because he was a Catholic priest, not Orthodox. After the Russian Revolution, when he’d become head of the Russian Catholics, the communist state persecuted him as a Christian. Fr Leonid Feodorov died on 7 March 1935 of what were called “natural causes,” but were the

Performance Precedes Dogma: What People Want From Christians When They Don’t Want Our Beliefs

June 17, 2021

The editors of the Catholic Herald, in the lead editorial in the issue of 16 January 1942, have been discussing the challenges of Christian unity, which the war had heightened. Now, they say, others have shifted their attention from dogma to “the outward effects of differing Christian standpoints.” They then write: Whether this weakening