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Humour can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle. ~ G.K. Chesterton On the 9th of December, 1886, Pope Leo XIII goofed. Or maybe not.It was an auspicious month for the Catholic Church in Britain. The Holy Father had already approved the beatification of 54 English martyrs (including Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher) on December 4th, and then five days later he introduced the cause of an additional 261 martyrs, declaring them all Venerable. Prominent among the latter was Fr. William Harcourt, the underground Jesuit superior of London who, along with four...

EWTN GALLERY: SEPTEMBER 27 ~ OCTOBER 1 THEME: CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ENGLAND EWTN GALLERY THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ENGLAND: THE DOWRY OF MARY: PT. 1 (30:00) NEW Monday September 27, 2004 4:30 AM Monday September 27, 2004 6:30 PM EWTN GALLERY THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ENGLAND: THE DOWRY OF MARY: PT. 2 (30:00) NEW Tuesday September 28, 2004 4:30 AM Tuesday September 28, 2004 6:30 PM EWTN GALLERY THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ENGLAND: THE DOWRY OF MARY: PT. 3 (30:00) NEW Wednesday September 29, 2004 4:30 AM Wednesday September 29, 2004...

Icon of St. Edmund Campionby T. Renee Kozinski English Martyr, 1 December 1581 St. Edmund Campion is probably the most well-known of the English Martyrs; but his fame does not stand out alone; rather it draws attention to the many other Catholic martyrs of those years at Tyburn. The blood of the torn bodies of these lovers of Our Lord soaked the English soil upon which the darkness of heresy was growing. The dead tree of Tyburn, paralleling the dead wood of the cross at Calvary, became a tree of life for England; it is a true daughter of the...