Jul 30, 2021
“Surely the world is impregnated with the elements of preternatural evil, which ever and anon, in unhealthy seasons, give lowering and muttering tokens of the wrath to come!”
This is the second in a series of four lectures by Newman on The Patristical Idea of Antichrist, the first lecture of which we released back...
Jul 23, 2021
“One that lives by other's breath, / Dieth also by his death.”
This poem by the English Jesuit martyr St. Robert Southwell is a meditation upon Mary Magdalene at the foot of the Cross. As an eventual martyr himself, Southwell’s reflections on death in the poem are prescient.
The poem is prefaced by a brief letter...
Jul 13, 2021
“The axe of the Gospel must now be laid at the roots of the barren tree and the tree must be delivered to the flames with its unfruitful leaves, so that he who has never learned to speak might learn at length to hold his tongue.”
Despite little training in eloquence or theology, Helvidius had gained some notoriety...