Tag Archives: St. John Fisher

Interview — 040: Phillip Campbell on the Nitty Gritty of the Middle Ages, part 2

Download       Play in New Window Phillip Campbell joins us for part 2 of our conversation exploring the nitty gritty of the Middle Ages. In this conversation we will discuss lay control of the Church, Episcopal absenteeism, the failure of the two-sword theory; tournaments, jousts, trial by ordeal, whether peasants actually liked the days off as […]

Interview 033 — Catholic Reform before Luther on The Mike Church Show

Download                 Play in New Window Today I was a guest on the Mike Church Show to talk about the myths surrounding Luther and the beginning of the “Reformation” and the Catholic reformers that began before Luther even appeared on the scene; so that Luther’s revolt was not due to abuses in the Church, but errors […]

Interview 022 – Calvin was Wrong on the Mike Church Show

Download [Right Click]          Play in New Window Today I was interviewed for the Mike Church Show in his series “The Modern Wrong World made Right”, where we discuss the Reformation and my translation of St. Robert Bellarmine. We begin with a discussion of the Reformation and the stage before Bellarmine gets on the scene, and […]

Why no synod coverage?

From a reader: “I am somewhat alarmed that you haven’t had any discussion or podcast on the Synod, or on Pope Francis in general. Why is your voice conspicuously absent?” Even socially people ask me what I think about the synod. My answer: Nothing. There is a reason for this. Firstly, why am I not […]

More of the Francis Effect: Bad Satire

Readers may recall my article dissecting a fake news piece that got linked to the Drudge Report and other sites as “actual news”. There is, sadly, a good deal more of that going on. There is an ever increasing proliferation of fake news, attempting to copy the Onion, some of it decent, some of it […]

St. John Fisher: Resistance to Tyranny

Today is the feast of the twin martyrs, St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More. There are books yet to be written on both, for all that have been written, but since so many more have been written on the latter I wish to write more on the former. Now, in the first place, Fisher […]

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