One of the most highly regarded series of St John Henry Newman’s writings is his University Sermons, being fifteen of the most important sermons he preached when he was an […]
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Category: Reviews
Credibility and Behaviour: Mass Exodus
I now come to a more theoretical side of Bullivant’s work. I am not in favour of the tendency to invent theories and then purport to explain reality by reference […]
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Why Do Catholic Children Leave the Faith? (Mass Exodus)
Why do children raised in good Catholic families today, leave or otherwise stop being part of the Church? This questions has a special poignancy when it comes to those who […]
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Bullivant, “Mass Exodus” Part Two
Having given an overall picture of Bullivant’s book, I now wish to provide a more detailed idea of its contents. First, he is well aware that there may be many […]
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Stephen Bullivant, “Mass Exodus”
Stephen Bullivant, Mass Exodus: Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019 This valuable book examines why a lot of Catholics have abandoned their […]
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Benson on the Methodists
In chapter 5 of Part 2, Monsignor Benson deals with the Methodists. He notes that John Wesley (1703-1791) had not originally intended that those who followed his preaching and practices […]
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Benson, “Non-Catholic Denominations,” The Congregationalists
The “Congregationalists” are the first subjects of Chapter 4, Part II, of this book. Benson says that, with the Baptists, they in the “most ancient right to stand for Nonconformity […]
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Benson: “Noncatholic Denominations,” Nonconformists, in general
In Part II, Chapter 3, Benson comes to a general discussion of the Nonconformists in the UK. They all have in common a repudiation of ceremonialism. Since they are attempting […]
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Jacob of Sarug on Simon Peter
Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on Simon Peter, when Our Lord said ‘Get behind Me, Satan.’ ed. Adam Carter McCollum, Gorgias Press The title of this work is the Homily on […]
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Benson: Non-Catholic Denominations, the Presbyterians
“The first General Assembly of the Reformed Church of Scotland met in 1560, shaped and inspired by the violent genius of John Knox, the apostate priest.” With this stirring and […]
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