On this feast of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, I once again pick up “Edith Stein: a Biography” by Waltraud Herbstrith (Ignatius Press, 1992). It’s a deep and thoughtful book that required my full attention as I read through it for the first time. Now, I can open the book at random and enjoyContinue reading ““Leave it with Him…really rest””
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Waugh on Campion
Today is the feast of St. Edmund Campion, Jesuit priest and English Elizabethan martyr. His story was told in 1935 by Evelyn Waugh, better known for his fiction, chief of which in my estimation is Brideshead Revisited. Waugh wrote in the Preface to Saint Edmund Campion that he was not attempting a scholar’s approach to his subject.Continue reading “Waugh on Campion”