Editor & publisher of neglected English Catholic literature.—Experienced in editing, copyediting, & proofreading (feel free to D.M. me).
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New article: A recusant priest praises St. Thomas Aquinas’s Corpus Christi liturgy.
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Jun 14
My favorite Catholic influencers have been dead for 500 years.
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No "Catholic influencers"
Not even once
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Jun 12
“The cry of ‘The Bible! the Bible! nothing but the Bible!’ is as perilous to man’s salvation as the Jews’ senseless cry ‘The Temple of the Lord! the Temple of the Lord! the Temple of the Lord it is!’ (Jer. 7.4).”
—Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman, Dublin Rev., 1852.
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Jun 12
“And whereas learned men of our time be divided into contrary sects, and write bitterly one against another, each one imputing to [the] other mistaking of the Scriptures; if amongst them who would seem to be the leaders of the people, [there] be controversies and debates…” (1/2)
Jun 11
“Among the special schemes with which non-Catholics plot against the adherents of Catholic truth to turn their minds away from the faith, the biblical societies are prominent. They were first established in England and have spread far and wide so that We now see them as an army on the march, conspiring to publish in great numbers copies of the books of divine Scripture. These are translated into all kinds of vernacular languages for dissemination without discrimination among both Christians and infidels. Then the biblical societies invite everyone to read them unguided. Therefore it is just as Jerome complained in his day: they make the art of understanding the Scriptures without a teacher ‘common to babbling old women and crazy old men and verbose sophists,’ and to anyone who can read, no matter what his status. Indeed, what is even more absurd and almost unheard of, they do not exclude the common people of the infidels from sharing this kind of a knowledge.”
- Pope Gregory XVI, Inter Praecipuas
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Jun 12
“…about the understanding of the Scriptures: how may the common people be thought to be in safe case out of all danger of errors, if by reading the Bible in their own tongue they take the matter in hand?”
—Rev. Dr. Thomas Harding, recusant priest & controversialist, 1564.
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It is telling that the English translations of de Chardin's works were printed by Harper, a secular publisher, with no imprimatur to be found in any one of them.
Teilhard de Chardin points to what Pope Leo missed in 'Magnifica Humanitas' ncronline.org/node/332386 via @NCRonline
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Don't worry it'll all work out for him
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English Catholic authors commonly had to apologize for their printers’ ignorance of English, but I’ve never seen an author say he ran out of paper, as in the @JesuitArchives’s book below..!
The C17th equivalent of 'the dog ate my homework'?
A printer explains in 1623 that he couldn't translate Latin to English as he did not have enough paper. And that he's broke.
#JesuitBooks #17thCentury #Printers #Complaints
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The Douai O.T.’s commentary on Gen. 17.14 seems to state the general Catholic opinion, without getting into uncertain specifics.
N.B., its editors wouldn’t have irresponsibly risked putting a fringe opinion in a Bible intended for the persecuted Catholics of Protestant England.
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May 26
A third review of my edition of Bl. Germain Gardiner's "Folly of Heresy" has been published in the Jan. 2026 English Catholic History Association newsletter along with an interview between myself & Miss Shanon Oxley. Warm thanks to @EnglishCatholi2.
echa.org.uk/newsletters/
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May 25
The heroism of the English recusants consisted not just in suffering oppression, torture, and martyrdom, but also in refusing to participate in the false religion of Protestantism.
Here is how St. Robert Southwell described this refusal ("A Humble Supplication," 1595, pp. 79f.).
May 23
Excerpts from a letter of St. Robert Southwell SJ to Claudio Acquaviva on the state of the English mission
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May 25
"…or is ashamed of Him, shall in the latter day be denied by Him before His Angels. And seeing men judge best of our minds by our actions, we cannot possible give any greater proof unto them that we are no Catholics than if we join with Protestants…"
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May 25
"…in their churches and service, by which, as then by most certain and special marks, they themselves are known to be of that opinion."
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May 22
Fr. William Allen (later a famous Cardinal) called Calvin a "fierce monstrous swine, rooting up our fathers' faith."
May 22
Love that Bellarmine called Luther the "Patriarch of all the Innovators"
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May 21
“Who is it sufficient to venerate Anne, the blessed mother of the Mother of God? Wherefore I confess that I am unworthy to speak of the most holy mother [Anne]…”
—Abbot Johannes Trithemius, O.S.B., De laud. sanct. Matris Anne (1494), ch. 16.
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May 19
“If to live without Jesus be a most painful death, what shall it be to live in mortal sin, which is to live against Jesus?”
—Fr. Luca Pinelli, S.J.
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