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The theme of the next issue is “Dungeon, Fire and Sword: The English Reformation”.
 
Highlights:
 
Archbishop Chaput admires St. Thomas More as “A Man for This Season, and All Seasons”.
 
Colin Jory exposes “Some Myths Regarding the English Church and the Bible at the Time of the Reformation”.
 
Grettelyn Nypaver laments “The Disreputable Dissolution of Glastonbury Abbey”.
 
Dena Hunt allows a sneak peak into her new novel, Treason, set in the treacherous times of Elizabethan England.
 
Robert Carballo highlights “The Assault on Authority and the Darkening of the Soul in Othello“.
 
Susan Treacy connects the music of William Byrd with the martyrdom of St. Edmund Campion.
 
Sophia Mason compares Raphael’s “Two Stabs at St. George and the Dragon”.
 
Kevin O’Brien sees the Reformation and the Deformation that followed in its wake as “Our Descent into Hell”.
 
John Beaumont focuses on Hugh Ross Williamson: “Convert from the English Reformation”.
 
Fr. Benedict Kiely reveres Chiara Corbella Petrillo as one who shines forth “The Light of Life”.
 
James Bemis harps happily on The Burmese Harp.
 
Joseph Pearce introduces us to “The Fundamentally Catholic Bilbo Baggins”.
 
Robert Gallagher gets to grips with Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit”.
 
Thomas Howard explains why good Catholics should read The Bad Catholic’s Guide to the Catechism.
 
Michael M. Jordan reviews Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundaitons and Critical Practice.
 
Roy Schoeman, a Jewish convert to Catholicism, enjoys A Passover Haggadah for Christians by Bruce Fingerhut, another Jewish convert.
 
Patricia Snow reviews The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God.
 
Donald P. Richmond confesses his admiration for the Knox Version of the Bible.
 
Kevin P. Shields reviews Faith Maps: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Ratzinger.
 
Trevor Lipscombe meditates prosodically on a Lenten pilgrimage to the Tyburn shrine.
 
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