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In the 1973 Disney cartoon film Robin Hood, King John is depicted as a lion surrounded by sacks of gold coins. Those money bags represent the king’s excessive taxation of his people, an unjust burden Robin Hood seeks to redress. In historical reality, King John is associated with the special coins known as Maundy Money, their [...]
Back in 2015 I led a pilgrimage to England with my good friend, Fr. Dwight Longenecker. One of the pilgrims who accompanied us was Linda Putman who has just sent me this wonderful summary of some of the highlights of our journey in the footsteps of the English saints and martyrs. Linda Putman writes: Reflections on [...]
In my latest article for the Journal of the Cardinal Newman Society I recall my recent firsthand experience of the educational legacy of Don Briel and G. K. Chesterton at speaking engagements in the Twin Cities and Chicago: https://journal.newmansociety.org/2018/03/educational-legacy-don-briel-g-k-chesterton/
“There is no country other than Britain that possesses a tradition of Joseph of Arimathea arriving on a mission to spread the Christian Gospel, remaining in the country until his death, and being buried there” (45), writes author Glyn Lewis, who succeeds in highlighting the centuries-long importance of this heroic legend to British Christianity. He provides [...]
March/April 2018: Misfits & Mystics: Flannery O'Connor and Friends Sample Content from Our Latest Issue March/April 2018 Table of Contents Sample Article Grace and the Grotesque: Redemption in the Southern Literature of Flannery O’Connor - Veronica A. Arntz To our softened, modern sensibilities, the stories of Flannery O’Connor are shocking. They are seemingly dark with despair, fraught with the [...]
What happens when so-called Catholic schools abandon Christ in the name of "tolerance"? Here are my thoughts on the matter: https://journal.newmansociety.org/2018/02/god-makes-way-gods/
When someone asks where to begin reading G. K. Chesterton, it is like asking which door to go in along the Strand. For just as the Strand offers entry to the Savoy Hotel and Twining’s tea shop, King’s College London and Nicholson’s Coal Hole, so does Chesterton admit of any number of approaches. There is Chesterton [...]
Imagine a Roman Catholic priest, a Benedictine monk in his early sixties with a sense that he is not long for this world. He has visited one of his former students, a diocesan priest, recently settled into his post as bishop of a major city some seventy miles south of the monastery. Back home, the old [...]