Category: Literature
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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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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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Chaste Sleuths Win By Popular Acclaim
Seldom promiscuous, some popular fiction detectives are sedately married rather, but more often single, when not in sacred vows: an unwitting homage paid by secular culture to the Christian religion.
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Falling in Eucharistic Love
Belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist has declined drastically over the past fifty years – how can we help reverse this trend?
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The Diary of a Country Priest Today
When you ponder the increasingly secularised society surrounding you are you ever tempted to wonder, ‘Why doesn’t God intervene?’
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Tintin and the Secret of the Elusive Priests
Fictional Belgian reporter Tintin is possibly the most significant comic strip character due to his seminal influence over that pictorial genre worldwide.
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Vermeer’s Angel
Armand de Malleray’s stunning prose draws the reader into a world of intrigue and uncertainty where nothing is quite as it seems.
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The Catholic Doctrine of the Angels
In ‘World Invisible’ Fr John Saward provides a timely synthesis of the perennial faith of Holy Church regarding God’s incorporeal creatures.