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  • A Fresh Look at Courtship

    A Fresh Look at Courtship

    By a young Catholic layman attending Juventutem events There are many different opinions on courtship, and this is because it is concerned with actions and ethics, and is therefore a…

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  • Mgr Benson’s Novels on Catholic Persecution

    Mgr Benson’s Novels on Catholic Persecution

    Readers of Dowry will no doubt be interested to see Silverstream Priory’s recent release of two historical novels by Robert Hugh Benson. Each of these classic Reformation novels includes a…

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  • Luisa de Carvajal: Would-be Saint and Martyr

    Luisa de Carvajal: Would-be Saint and Martyr

    Dominica Roberts introduces the Spanish lady who hoped to die a martyr for the love of Catholic England.

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  • Why the Film Nefarious Is Atheists’ Nightmare

    Why the Film Nefarious Is Atheists’ Nightmare

    By Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP Blood-dripping walls and young girls talking netherworldly are not your cup of tea? Mine neither. But I was eager to see an atheistic doctor…

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  • A Queen For All Seasons

    A Queen For All Seasons

    Aidan Harvey-Craig praises Queen Catherine of Aragon’s courageous witness to the inviolability of marriage and to the Catholic faith as a timely example for our times of matrimonial breakdown and…

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  • Seaport by Sunset

    Seaport by Sunset

    May this image and similar ones unfold before our mind like the sails unfurl in Claude’s painted harbour, catching the divine breeze that propels ship and crew, heart and soul,…

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  • Ending Habitual Sins

    Ending Habitual Sins

    We must take part in the battle against sin if we expect to receive the fruits of Our Lord’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection, following Him in Heaven after His glorious…

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  • Woodcarving As Worship

    Woodcarving As Worship

    Genuine beauty is the splendour of the truth. The more directly a truth refers to God, the more splendid its illustration must be. This applies supremely to the sacred liturgy.

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  • The Sacred Liturgy as a Secret Garden

    The Sacred Liturgy as a Secret Garden

    An analogy between Frances Hodgson Burnett’s pre-WWI tale for children and the revelation experienced in the 2020s by adults stepping into the grace-filled haven of the traditional Roman liturgy.

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  • Picasso’s Guernica or, This Is Not A Corrida

    Picasso’s Guernica or, This Is Not A Corrida

    The bombing of Guernica in northern Spain occurred on April 26, 1937. Picasso painted a picture after the same name, becoming a turning point in his career.

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