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From the Editor: For today’s blogpost, a reminder of the beauty to be found in the natural world – something you hopefully explore more when free from the dreaded Oxford deadlines! ‘Carry no purse, no haversack, no sandals.’ So instructed Jesus of the seventy-two disciples in that morning’s Gospel (Luke […]

‘On Seagull’s Wings: Reflections on a Retreat in Dublin’, by ...

July 24, 2022 in Blog by Nick Champness

From the Editor: The first instalment of a forthcoming series to keep your theological noggins ticking over the vac -Heresy of the Week! Courtesy of Peter and Will, here’s the story – and the rebuttal – of Arianism! Arianism was perhaps the first great heresy to threaten the orthodox Church […]

‘Heresy of the Week: Arianism’, by Murray and Morris

July 21, 2022 in Blog by Nick Champness

From the Editor: One for all of the Poles in our readership – in case they let you forget, they very proud of their Catholic heritage! Saint Jadwiga of Poland (also known as Hedwig) is remembered as a great ruler of her nation. Despite dying on this day (17 July) […]

‘Saint Jadwiga’, by Michal Harris-Edwards

July 17, 2022 in Blog by Nick Champness

From the Editor: From the pen of the Newman’s most Anglophilic American, who also happens to be the St Thomas More Lecture Secretary (so he should know his stuff!), here’s a piece about St Thomas More, the University’s protomartyr. The vac, especially the long vac, affords us a bit more […]

‘On the Anniversary of the Death of St Thomas More’, ...

July 6, 2022 in Blog by Nick Champness

From the Editor: Here is an insightful reflection on the nature of God’s mercy and our need for it. While this is, naturally, a universal topic, it should be especially interesting for the Byzantine devotees among you… Enjoy! Over Hilary and Trinity terms, various friends have brought to my attention […]

‘Our Unending Prayer for Unyielding Love: Lord, Have Mercy’, by ...

June 1, 2022 in Blog by Nick Champness

From the Editor: A very blessed and a happy Feast of the Ascension from everyone here at the Newman! ‘As they watched, he was lifted up, and a cloud removed him from their sight into heaven. Alleluia.’ Today, we celebrate the Feast of the Ascension. Christ is no longer among […]

‘The Ascension’, by Nicholas Champness

May 26, 2022 in Blog by Nick Champness

From the Editor: In commemoration of St Bede’s death, The Society President writes reminding us of the great achievements of Bede. Enjoy! St Bede died today, 25th May, in 735. That year, as this year, it was the vigil of the Ascension. As the great historian lay on his death-bed, […]

‘St Bede’, by Aloysius Atkinson

May 25, 2022 in Blog by Nick Champness

From the Editor: Here is a special piece on the role of Oxford in one of our preeminent Catholic author’s novels. Hopefully, this will whet your appetite, a praegustatio one might say, for the talk Fr Joe will give to the Newman on 2 June 2022 entitled, ‘Via Litteraria: Evangelizing […]

‘So through a world of piety’: Recognizing Truths in ...

May 20, 2022 in Blog by Nick Champness

From the Editor: Albeit a day late when transferred, here is a very informative post on St George from our resident expert on Medieval Britain and President of the Newman, Aloysius Surely England could have a better patron than St George? He wasn’t from here, he never came here. England […]

‘St George’, by Aloysius Atkinson

April 27, 2022 in Blog by Nick Champness

From the Editor: One here for the rather substantial Polish contingent among our ranks… Merry Feast! If one were to look at the proper of saints in a Polish breviary today (because he forgot that, at the end of April, we are still in the octave of Easter), he would […]

‘St Adalbert of Prague’, by Wojciech Magier

April 23, 2022 in Blog by Nick Champness