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Blessed and Blessed
GREEK HAS A WORD FOR IT. That’s an expression that recognizes that there are subtle distinctions available in Greek that English lacks. For instance, Greek has two words for “blessed.” But in English we...
Featured Highlights
Sensible Miss Austen
It’s hard to contain my pleasure or my surprise at the continuing interest in Jane Austen. The more-or-less successful adaptations of her books for film and television as well as a library of offshoot...
Reviews
Love and Friendship: A Film Review
Love & Friendship (2016)
Written and Directed by Whit Stillman
Based on Jane Austen’s Lady Susan
Whit Stillman’s partiality for Jane Austen is obvious in his first film, Metropolitan, and close to the surface in Damsels in...
Book
Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor
(Saint Thomas More was put to death on July 6th, even though we celebrate his feast on June 22nd, the day when his compatriot and contemporary, Saint John Fisher, had his head removed for...
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Callam’s Law
Murphy, whoever he was, has gained immortality of a sort by enunciating a law which, if not absolutely universal, is close enough to experience to be universally quoted: “If anything can go wrong, it...
Reviews
Calvary (2014): A Film Review of a Tragedy
The following review was written by Father Callam for an anthology, and is re-posted here, signifying Hollywood's continued fascination with the image of the Catholic priest. They always somehow distort, even mock and belittle,...
Articles
Reading G.K. Chesterton Through the Eyes of Father Brown
(In my pilgrimaging through England a couple of summers ago, which now seems like a different era, I made my way to the grave of the great G.K. Chesterton, not far from the house...
Reviews
A Review of Father Jonathan Robinson’s “The Mass and Modernity”
Jonathan Robinson, The Mass and Modernity: Walking to Heaven Backwards. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2005. (First published in the Chesterton Review)
When I mentioned Father Robinson’s latest book to a learned friend, he said, “Robinson...
