HistoryNew and NoteworthyBlessed Ignatius Spencer’s Correspondence with Saint John Henry NewmanJust last month, on February 20th, Pope Francis declared that the nineteenth-century Passionist priest, Fr. Ignatius Spencer, would be known as the Venerable Ignatius Spencer. Elizabeth Huddleston March 10, 2021 3 min
New and NoteworthyLetter from a Poet: Gerard Manley Hopkins to Ignatius RyderJust seven months before his death, the now famous poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ, penned the following letter to Henry “Ignatius” Ryder. Elizabeth Huddleston January 27, 2021 3 min
HistoryNew and NoteworthyNewman in America: Correspondence with J. B. Purcell, Archbishop of CincinnatiIn 1875 John Baptist Purcell wrote to Newman that some in the United States were opposed to a pamphlet he published in a Catholic Liverpool paper. Elizabeth Huddleston January 19, 2021 2 min
