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A Vanity Fair portrait of Bishop Alexander from 1895
At Oxford he was profoundly influenced by the ‘Oxford Movement’ (which sought the return of the Church of England to pre-Reformation beliefs and liturgical practice) and the sermons of John Henry Newman.
When in 1845 Newman left the Church of England and his teaching post at Oxford University and was received into the Roman Catholic Church, Alexander seriously considered following him to the extent that he took his name off the college books and wrote to his mother stating his intention of converting and then left Oxford.
Doubts began to surface on his journey home. He encountered a Quakeress who managed to calm him. This combined with a torturous night of soul searching in a cheap hotel in Birmingham, resolved his doubts.
Volunteer State lawmakers look to honor songs of historic significance that have influenced the [state]
Recently, Dolly Parton turned down being honored via a statue at the Tennessee State Legislature’s chambers in Nashville. However, that has not stopped Volunteer State lawmakers Rep. Mike Sparks and Sen. Raumesh Akbari from introducing a house bill in Tennessee’s state legislature that would make Dolly Parton’s rendition of “Amazing Grace” the state’s official hymn.
According to Bill HB0938, Parton’s take on the religious anthem penned by abolitionist John Henry Newman is a “song of historical significance that [has] influenced the state of Tennessee,” having been recorded by the likes of “artists with strong connections to Tennessee, including Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, Tennessee Ernie Ford, the Spirit of Memphis Quartet, the Fairfield Four, Willie Nelson, Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, the Oak Ridge Boys, Merle Haggard, Alan Jackson, and Garth Bro
I commenced my writing career, roughly 25 years ago, as a critic of liberal Catholicism, which I referred to, in one of the first articles I ever published, as beige Catholicism. By this designation, I meant a faith that had become culturally accommodating, hand-wringing, unsure of itself; a Church that had allowed its distinctive colors to be muted and its sharp edges to be dulled. In a series of articles and talks as well as in such books as And Now I See, The Strangest Way, and especially The Priority of Christ, I laid out my critique of the type of Catholicism that held sway in the years after the Second Vatican Council as well as my vision of what a renewed and evangelically compelling Church would look like. I emphasized Christocentrism as opposed to anthropocentrism, a Scripture-based theological method rather than one grounded in human experience, the need to resist the reduction of Christianity to psychology and social service, a recovery of the great Catholic intell
COVID-19 cases in Hamilton schools this February almost half of what they were in December
COVID-19 has infected 17 more students and staff since Friday morning. The Catholic board also tested more than 100 people for the virus late last week.
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