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St Matthias, his election and Our Lady – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ
"To her Mathias came in the place of Judas, like a new child granted to a mother who had lost one on whom she had spent care and love in vain."
"What is the New Covenant?" The Prophet Jeremias and Cornelius à Lapide explain
"There will be such ease and grace that great labour will not be necessary to learn what is necessary for salvation; even children immediately grasp…
Awaiting Pentecost: Our Lady and the Apostles in the Cenacle – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ
"She could understand, more than any other, the gifts and fruits of the Holy Ghost as they are drawn out for us by Isaias and by St. Paul."
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Why it's fitting that the month of May is dedicated to Our Lady – Editors' Updates
The glories of creation reflect from glories of God and Our Lady.
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M. J. McCusker
The Rosary and the Immaculate Heart are Fatima’s two last remedies for the world
"There is no problem I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary."
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M. J. McCusker
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Our Lady, the Rosary and the Holy Souls – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1889
“It pleads through the heart and through the lips of Mary herself.”
The Rosary: A School of Contemplation – Garrigou-Lagrange, 1941
“The words are a kind of melody which soothes the ear and isolates us from the noise of the world.”
Pope Leo XIII on the Holy Rosary
“This devotion has never shone forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of God has seemed to be endangered by the violence of heresy."
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M. J. McCusker
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Abbé de Nantes and his group "The Contre-Réforme Catholique" (CRC)
Is a re-evaluation of the CRC's hostilities towards other traditional Catholics possible?
The God of the Philosophers is the God of the Patriarchs
There is something not quite right about Pascal’s formulation – moving though it is.
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Divine faith does not admit "falsification events" for the Church – Editors' Updates
"It may be that they already have one foot out of the door."
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Original Essays

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The Rosary and the Immaculate Heart are Fatima’s two last remedies for the world
"There is no problem I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary."
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M. J. McCusker
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The King of France, Fatima and the Crisis in the Church
“Given they follow the example of the King of France in delaying the execution of my request, they will follow him into misfortune.”
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S.D. Wright
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Pope St Pius V – “Crushing of the Enemies of thy Church”
"Many whom he judged and punished ended by loving him also."
"The One Catholic Mass" – Notes on the lost article by l'Abbé de Nantes and the CRC
"None may set up his conscience as a marginal magisterium in order to bring accusations of sin."

Classic Texts

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St Matthias, his election and Our Lady – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ
"To her Mathias came in the place of Judas, like a new child granted to a mother who had lost one on whom she had spent care and love in vain."
"What is the New Covenant?" The Prophet Jeremias and Cornelius à Lapide explain
"There will be such ease and grace that great labour will not be necessary to learn what is necessary for salvation; even children immediately grasp…
Our Lady, the Rosary and the Holy Souls – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1889
“It pleads through the heart and through the lips of Mary herself.”
The Rosary: A School of Contemplation – Garrigou-Lagrange, 1941
“The words are a kind of melody which soothes the ear and isolates us from the noise of the world.”
What did Cardinal Newman say about the Rosary to a school of young men and boys?
"The great power of the Rosary lies in this, that it makes the Creed into a prayer."
Why was St Robert Bellarmine declared a Doctor of the Church?
Sometimes it can feel like Heaven uses dates in a providential way.
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S.D. Wright
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Newman

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Why it's fitting that the month of May is dedicated to Our Lady – Editors' Updates
The glories of creation reflect from glories of God and Our Lady.
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M. J. McCusker
What did Cardinal Newman say about the Rosary to a school of young men and boys?
"The great power of the Rosary lies in this, that it makes the Creed into a prayer."
Cardinal Newman and the validity of Holy Orders – what would he think today?
"Is it not charitable to hope, to believe, that so great a treasure has not been given to their keeping?"
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Cardinal Newman and the influencers of his day – What would he think of Catholic YouTube?
“They simply do not know what they are talking about.”

Coleridge

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St Matthias, his election and Our Lady – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ
"To her Mathias came in the place of Judas, like a new child granted to a mother who had lost one on whom she had spent care and love in vain."
Awaiting Pentecost: Our Lady and the Apostles in the Cenacle – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ
"She could understand, more than any other, the gifts and fruits of the Holy Ghost as they are drawn out for us by Isaias and by St. Paul."
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Our Lady, the Rosary and the Holy Souls – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1889
“It pleads through the heart and through the lips of Mary herself.”
The Annunciation: Why did Isaias prophesy that “a Virgin shall be with Child”? – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1885
“In abandoning your House, he would be abandoning his own promises.”

Prayer

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The Rosary and the Immaculate Heart are Fatima’s two last remedies for the world
"There is no problem I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary."
 • 
M. J. McCusker
1
Our Lady, the Rosary and the Holy Souls – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1889
“It pleads through the heart and through the lips of Mary herself.”
The Rosary: A School of Contemplation – Garrigou-Lagrange, 1941
“The words are a kind of melody which soothes the ear and isolates us from the noise of the world.”
Pope Leo XIII on the Holy Rosary
“This devotion has never shone forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of God has seemed to be endangered by the violence of heresy."
 • 
M. J. McCusker
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