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Welcome to the
website for Supremacy and Survival: How Catholics Endured the English
Reformation! I’ll keep it updated with events and other information.
Please link to my
blog where I’ll discuss important dates and my continuing research.
Thank you very much!
August
Updates:
The
Catholic Writers Guild Live Conference:
While at the Catholic Writers Guild Conference and the Catholic Marketing
Network Trade Show, I appeared on Kresta in the Afternoon. Listen to
the audio
here.
The Good
Fight
Radio Show: On Saturday, August 27 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Central Time,
I appeared Barbara McGuigan’s radio show: Listen to the audio
here.
October
and November updates:
·
Wednesday, October 12: Presentation on “Church History and Apologetics”,
part of the Catholicism for College Students series at St. Paul’s
Parish-Newman Center on the campus of Wichita State University from 8:00 to
9:00 p.m.
·
Tuesday,
November 15: Presentation on “November 15 and the Catholic Martyrs of the
English Reformation” at the Serra Metro Club Meeting.
Something to look forward to:
The Catholic Answers Magazine, published by Our Sunday Visitor, will
publish my article “Henry VIII’s ‘Achievement’: What was the Dissolution of
the Monasteries?” in the November/December issue.
Book Description
The persecution of Catholics began in 16th century England and tested the
Church for over 250 years. Penal laws labeled Catholic believers as traitors
and brought fines, imprisonment, and even execution. Prominent persons such
as Thomas More, Edmund Campion, and Margaret Clitherow were martyred, while
others quietly endured suspicion or harassment to teach and pass on their
faith to others, but died peacefully in their beds.
The official persecution slowly subsided as threats to England's external
power waned in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the 19th century,
intellectual converts such as John Henry Newman and Henry Manning brought
the merits of Catholicism a new respect in the eyes of Protestant public
opinion. This enabled the unfolding of a wide-ranging apologetic that would
fall to 20th century figures such as G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and
Ronald Knox.
This book tells the story of the Catholic Church's survival and restoration
in one land. It serves both as a lesson and a warning of the risks to faith
and freedom when absolute power is given free reign.
Please see sample pages
here.
·
BREAKING NEWS: The first printing
of Supremacy and Survival: How Catholics Endured the English Reformation
sold out and was reprinted late last year! Thank you! It is
also available for purchase in eBook formats from
Amazon.com,
BarnesandNoble.com, and the
iBookstore app on your iPod or iPhone.
·
Update: I
have gone two rounds on “The Good Fight”; the second interview was on
Saturday, November 6 with Barbara, Richard “Doc” Geraghty, and I discussing
Blessed Margaret Pole and St. Margaret Clitherow and the English
Reformation. You can listen to that interview and my first appearance,
recorded Saturday, October 2,
here.
· Update:
You can search for my EWTN Bookmark interview with Doug Keck and of
my EWTN Live interview with Father Mitch Pacwa
here (just type “supremacy and survival” in the second search
box—without quotation marks)—and watch video of the Bookmark show on my
Contact/Events tab!
· Update:
I taped an interview with Kris McGregor for Inside the Pages on KVSS
Spirit Catholic Radio in Omaha and Lincoln Nebraska—an MP3 download is
available
here. |
