Author: robertslawik@outlook.com
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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 practical rather than a theoretical science. This means that there are some grey areas and people can rightly hold differing points of view to some…
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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 new foreword by Catholic literary scholar Joseph Pearce (author of biographies of Chesterton and Tolkien), seven specially commissioned illustrations, and entirely re-typeset text. ‘Enjoyable as…
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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
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 clinically try to persuade a possessed inmate that God and Satan don’t exist. This is why I heartily recommend watching Nefarious, the remarkable film directed…
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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 religious relativism. Imagine being in a foreign country, abandoned by your spouse, stripped of your identity, your life in clear and present danger. And, at…
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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, toward the blissful embrace of the rising Sun.
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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 Ascension.
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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
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
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.