February 2nd, 2007
In anticipation of Amazing Grace, the movie coming out later in the month about William Wilberforce’s role in the movement to abolish the slave trade in England, we’ve discovered some fascinating Catholic connections.
To begin, the great Regency reformer, abolitionist and devout Evangelical, was also a strong voice for Catholic Emancipation in England. (In the early [...]
January 24th, 2007
Right now, in the bleak midwinter, it is so refreshing to see the website and trailer for the upcoming film Amazing Grace, about the admirable Regency reformer William Wilberforce—it’s almost like a whiff of Spring. Directed by Michael Apted (Coal Miner’s Daughter) and co-produced by Terrence Malick, the film stars Ioan Gruffudd (Hornblower) in the [...]
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
Joan of Arc: A Life (Penguin Lives) by Mary Gordon
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There is a sense of insignificance which is trying and discouraging and leads to envy of the rich and great. It leads also to a certain selfishness even amid poverty and absolute want. The absence of the ideal of the self as potentially great and capable of great deeds keeps it small and self-centred….The greatness of the Church, coupled with a true sense of the dignity of the individual human soul, if looked at as a Christian should look at it, is the true antidote.
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