June 17, 2011

Firmly I believe and truly – When a dramatic poem by the now Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman, ‘The Dream of Gerontius ’ was set to music by another English Catholic, the composer Sir Edward Elgar making a fine hymn in honour of the Blessed Trinity . Monsignor Philip Whitmore…
Vatican Radio: Pius XII on air – It was 1950, in the aftermath of the Second World War, when Pius XII spoke through the microphones of Vatican Radio to another Catholic Radio in the United States. The radio station in question was ‘The Catholic Hour’ celebrating over a quarter of a century of broadcasting .
A Pozzo Chapel dedicated to Saint Aloysius – One of Rome’s best kept secrets is revealed to us by Professor of Fine Arts, Breda Ennis in the Roman Church of Saint Ignatius.
Abandoning Pius II for Jules Verne – Did you know that in 1867 Jules Verne travelled to Rome and was received in audience by Pius IX and that in 2005 the Vatican once mentioned this famous Frenchman in a letter? But could this author have written in Latin ? Our popular ‘Latin Lover’, Carmelite Father Reginald Foster ...

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