Ancient Antioch: The Background (51st Maronite Podcast) The Maronite Church declares, in its official documents, that it is an Antiochene Syriac Maronite Church. The Maronite Patriarch is, officially, the Patriarch […]
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St J.H. Newman, “Loss and Gain,” Part 3 (final)
This will be our last treatment of St John Henry Newman’s novel Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert. Charles Reding comes to a critical question: is he obliged to treat […]
Read moreSt J.H. Newman, “Loss and Gain,” Pt 2
This is the text of the 49th Maronite Podcast We continue with the story of Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert. Charles Reding is at lunch with Mr Malcolm, and […]
Read moreSt. J.H. Newman, “Loss and Gain,” Part 1
This is the text of the 47th Maronite Podcast: Loss and Gain, Pt 1 It is now time to turn to Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert, which […]
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St J.H. Newman, “Tamworth Reading Room,” Pt 2
This is the text of the 45th Maronite Podcast We have already seen that, in the seven letters comprising The Tamworth Reading Room of 1841, St John Henry Newman was, […]
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St J.H. Newman, “The Tamworth Reading Room,” Pt I
St John Henry Newman, The Tamworth Reading Room, A Review “The Tamworth Reading Room,” pp.254-305 in Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects, edited with an introduction and notes by Gerard Tracey […]
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Life after Death in the OId Testament
It is quite odd: scholars really resist accepting that there are any references to life after death in the Old Testament. Shannon Burkes (Death in Qoheleth and Egyptian Biographies), says […]
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St J. Newman on St Ignatius of Antioch (Part 2)
St Newman then cites a number of passages from St Ignatius which I shall pass over as our subject here is really what is said about how to think about […]
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St J.H. Newman on St Ignatius of Antioch (Part I)
This article was published in the British Critic, in 1839. St Newman was still an Anglican at this time, but was moving closer and closer to the Catholic Church. This […]
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St John Henry Newman: “The Dream of Gerontius” (Part Two)
The soul of Gerontius speaks the first words of section II: “I went to sleep, and now I am refresh’d / A strange refreshment; for I feel in me / […]
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