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New Podcast: John Allen’s Future Church
My new podcast series begins today. It is my chapter by chapter discussion of John Allen’s 2009 book The Future Church. I’m doing […]
Gargoyle Code Sample – Ash Wednesday
Listen to this free sample of me reading The Gargoyle Code If you’d like to listen to the whole book week by week […]
Henry VIII
In the second episode of Characters of the Reformation Belloc takes apart the evil King Henry VIII of England.
Triumphs and Tragedies 23
The second half of the twentieth century takes us through the papacy of John XXIII, the second Vatican Council and the fallout […]
Triumphs and Tragedies 22
The twentieth century: Pope Pius X hammers the heresies of modernism, the church flourishes in missionary lands and Europe is plunged into […]
Triumphs and Tragedies 21
The nineteenth century sees a resurgence in the Catholic faith after the terrible devastation of the French Revolution. Pope Pius IX stands […]
Triumphs and Tragedies – 20
This episode takes us into the 18th century in which the church slides into political intrigue, is weakened by a series of […]
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Way of the World and the Way of the Child – this homily compares the “way that seems right to a […]
Triumphs and Tragedies – 19
The Counter Reformation, the Council of Trent and the struggles between Jansenists and Jesuits. It looks now like there will be 23 […]