Showing posts with label Cardinal Newman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cardinal Newman. Show all posts
Tuesday, 14 April 2026

The best eight converts

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Twitter polls don't seem to be working too well at present (maybe only 1 in 4 votes are recorded) but anyway, here are the last eight in...
Sunday, 24 April 2022

World Cup of Patron Saints of England

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A bit of a new venture here - usually we go for Bad Hymns, Bad Cardinals, Ugly Churches, Instruments from Hell, etc. (and some of these cont...
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Saturday, 9 November 2019

Ten years on - Pope Cupich on Inculturation

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Inculturation: A two-way street November 9th, 2029 As all Catholics will know, following the conclave in which I was elected Pope, and...
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Monday, 14 October 2019

Giving advice to St John Henry Newman

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A revised version of an old post, to celebrate the canonization of JHN. As a change from " Bad hymns ," we like to invite in so...
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Saturday, 12 October 2019

Newman was my kind of Catholic

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A guest contribution from Christopher Lambchop of the Tablet. There is little doubt that celebrity saint John Henry Newman would have been ...
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Monday, 29 July 2019

Anglican church tries a "God" experiment

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This summer, the Reverend Francis Heppenstall, Anglican Vicar of Twing, has decided to try something new in order to attract congregations t...
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Monday, 25 May 2015

Catholic Dilemmas: Are Catholics allowed to praise Pope Francis?

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I cannot stand the way that people think it is all right to praise Pope Francis. Surely a Catholic should always be rebellious? In recent ...
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Sunday, 14 September 2014

Should noisy adults be allowed in church?

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One of my younger readers writes: Dear Uncle Eccles, What should we do about noisy adults in church? I am six years old, and I go to Mass...
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Monday, 1 April 2013

Darkins denies the existence of light

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Professor Richard Darkins has launched another scathing attack on those "gullible" folk who believe in the existence of light. ...
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Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Some New Hymns

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As a change from " Bad hymns ," where we say cruel things to modern hymn-writers, we are now going to invite in some older hymn-wr...
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Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Tonight's Television

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The Vicar of Webly It's not over until the fat bishop sings. In tonight's episode of The Vicar of Webly , the Church of Englan...
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Monday, 15 October 2012

How Damian Thompson saved the Catholic church

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We are pleased to welcome a celebrity guest blogger, the Archbishop of Corby, the Most Reverend Paul Priest, who will explain (more briefly ...
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Tuesday, 14 August 2012

The Book of St Richard, Chapter 11

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Continued from Chapter 10 1. So Richard entered into the evening of his life, that is, the days of his retirement. 2. And his wife Lalla ...
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