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Sermons Preached on Various Occasions
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Introduction by James Tolhurst
In November 1851, John Henry Newman was appointed President of the new Catholic University of Ireland, with a vague brief as to structure and personnel. He commented, “I mean to be Chancellor, Rector, Provost, Professor, Tutor all at once, and no one else anything.” He had to wait until June 1854 for the bishops to approve the university’s statutes before he was installed as Rector. The first eight sermons collected in this volume were preached during Mass in the University Church on St Stephen’s Green between May 4, 1856, and February 22, 1857.
By the time the first edition of… Read More
Pilgrims to the Northland
The Archdiocese of St. Paul, 1840-1962
Marvin R. O’Connell
This is the first narrative history of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, from 1840 to 1962. Historian Marvin R. O’Connell brings to life the extraordinary labors and accomplishments of the French priests who came to the upper midwest territory during the first half of the nineteenth century. Over the next fifty years a flood of settlers, primarily Irish and German Catholics, filled up the land. In 1850 Rome created a new diocese centered in the village of St. Paul, and in 1851 French priest Joseph Cretin was named its first bishop.
O’Connell’s lively account stresses the social, economic, and political… Read More
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CHOICE Magazine reviews Winthrop Wetherbee's The Ancient Flame
- CHOICE Magazine praised Winthrop Wetherbee’s book The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets, calling it “. . . [l]earned, readable, genuinely and profoundly humane . . . .”
“A well-known scholar of classical and medieval Latin poetry, Wetherbee brings his enormous expertise in that field to bear on Dante’s Commedia, with consistently original and thought-provoking results. . . . Learned, readable, genuinely and profoundly humane, these readings succeed admirably in attaining their author’s stated goal of showing ‘the extent to which [Dante’s] gradual discovery of his own mission as a vernacular poet depended on a close…Read More
