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Oct 22, 20215 min read

Oct 6 Tennyson - Faith and Doubt In Memoriam

Queen Victoria, the longest reigning British monarch, after the death of her beloved Prince Albert was undergoing prolonged and painful...

Sep 20, 20216 min read

Sep 12 Richard Challoner - leading under pressure

Richard Challoner would become the leading figure of English Catholicism for the greater part of the eighteenth century. He was bright...

Jul 17, 20213 min read

July 18 Birmingham City

Today we remember how 6 members of the choir from Holy Trinity Church in Bordsley, Birmingham, decided to form a football club so as to...

Jun 21, 20213 min read

June 19 Acton - Power Corrupts, Absolute Power corrupts absolutely

Today in 1902 Lord Acton died. John Acton was the English Catholic historian, died in Bavaria, Germany. Now famous for his saying...

Jun 21, 20214 min read

June 16 John Henry Newman and Lead Kindly Light

In 1833 the young Anglican priest John Henry Newman, while traveling on a ship from Italy to France, wrote the words to the hymn, “Lead...

May 28, 20214 min read

May 29 G.K.Chesterton's quest for orthodoxy

One of the greatest writers in the English language at the beginning of the 20th Century. On an intense spiritual journey that took him...

Apr 23, 20216 min read

Apr 24 Baptism of St Augustine

Today we remember how Augustine of Hippo was baptised by Ambrose in Milan as a 33 year old man - a 'late convert'. His writings and his...

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