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Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/11/11

Posted on Monday, 21 November 2011 Tags: Africae Munus, André Aciman, Apostolic Exhortation, Benin, Cardinal Benardin Gantin, Carl Olson, Copts, John Allen, L'Osservatore Romano, Laurence England, Michael Gerson, Shakespeare, Summorum Pontificum, Universae Ecclesiae

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Anonymous should be ignored by all Shakespeare lovers

Posted on Friday, 28 October 2011 Tags: Ben Jonson, James Shapiro, Roland Emmerich, Shakespeare, Sigmund Freud, Sir Derek Jacobi

Conspiracies about the authorship of Shakespeare have fascinated for decades, but ultimately ‘only foolish snobs don’t believe in Shakespeare’

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Let’s not get carried away claiming Shakespeare for Catholicism

Posted on Thursday, 18 August 2011 Tags: All's Well That Ends Well, Clare Asquith, Shakespeare, St James of Compostella, The Globe

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith reviews a superb production of All’s Well That Ends Well, but cautions against extravagant interpretations of Shakespeare

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Cor ad cor loquitur: what does the papal visit motto really mean?

Posted on Friday, 13 August 2010 Tags: Cardinal John Henry Newman, cor ad cor loquitur, ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem, John Ruskin, Papal Visit 2010, Plato, Shakespeare, St Francis de Sales, Treatise on the Love of God

It’s time to end the dispute over the meaning of Cardinal Newman’s tag

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