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Untitled 26 Feb 2009 | 10:51 pm
I haven't been posting very much recently, not only because it's a busy time of year in the parish but because my 83 year-old father has been rather unwell. This has prevented me from following or com...
International Summer School for Young Catholics 26 Feb 2009 | 10:48 am
I'm delighted to post the following advert for the International Summer School for Young Catholics, founded by the late David Foster. As a former student I warmly recommend it: INSTAURARE OMNIA IN CH...
Oscott 5 Feb 2009 | 11:23 pm
Last week I visited St Mary's College, Oscott, the seminary for the Archdiocese of Birmingham, in order to collect some archival materials. It seemed quite a happy place and three members of the staff...
Burns Night and Haggis 26 Jan 2009 | 04:16 am
Since publishing on 2009 anniversaries earlier this month, I keep coming across more. Today, for example, is not only the Conversion of St Paul but Burns Night - and, indeed, the 250th anniversary of ...
New Books 25 Jan 2009 | 08:59 pm
Alumni of the Venerable English College, Rome in recent years have been rather prolific in publishing books. In the last week or so two of my classmates have produced interesting titles. Fr Gerard Sk...
Ecumenical Fruits 25 Jan 2009 | 09:17 am
Good news about the SSPX excommunications being remitted at the end of Christian Unity Week. There is still a long way to go and I'm sure that members of the Society will be divided over the path that...
A Day in the Castelli 24 Jan 2009 | 03:03 am
This time last week I was in the Castelli, the little towns in the Alban Hills just outside Rome. After a sublime lunch at Monte Porzio (where the English College had a villa up until 1918 - above you...
Newman's Cause 22 Jan 2009 | 06:18 am
I've been asked to draw your attention to the new 'Official Website for the Cause for the Canonisation of JohnHenry Cardinal Newman.' This includes a Thought for the Day from Newman's writings, biogra...
An Ostrich at the Vatican 21 Jan 2009 | 11:22 am
Saturday was the feast of St Anthony of Egypt, the desert Father whose story was so memorably told by St Athanasius. In Italy he is known as San Antonio Abate and is often depicted with animals (espec...
Papal Angelus 21 Jan 2009 | 09:50 am
I received two e-mails today, from readers in Germany and Texas, encouraging me to post after an absence of a few weeks. I have indeed been rather apathetic in my blogging duties but in recent days it...
