Sadly we have had to either cancel or postpone all our public events until further notice.
We are planning that our AGM and Day Conference will be go ahead via Zoom on October 24th when Dr Carmen Mangion will be speaking on Changing Dimensions of Women’s Religious Life from 1945-1990. We will keep you updated.
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Refer to the London Catholic History Walks website for more details of the events below:
RICHMOND: FRIDAY March 13th, 11am (note time, there is Mass at 10am) St Elizabeth’s RC Church, The Vineyard, Richmond TW10 6AQ. Nearest Tube and main line train RICHMOND. We will explore the Old Palace (Henry VII, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I) and then walk along the river to St John Henry Newman’s family home at Ham.
ISLINGTON: SUNDAY March 15th, 3.30pm at St John the Divine, Islington, London N1 8AL (nearest tube ANGEL). We will learn about the ancient shrine of Our Lady of the Oak, and a modern Catholic heroine, Caroline Chisholm.
RICHMOND: SUNDAY March 22nd. 3.30pm History Walk RICHMOND. Meet St Elizabeth’s RC Church, Richmond TW10 6AQ
WESTMINSTER: MONDAY March 30th, 6.30pm (after 5.30pm Mass). Meet steps of Westminster Cathedral London SW1P 1LT. We will explore Westminster, the Abbey, Parliament etc.
NO NEED TO BOOK – JUST TURN UP! Wear sensible clothing and shoes – we will be walking whatever the weather!
Suggested donation: £10 per adult.
The Christian Heritage Centre at Stonyhurst is hosting an academic conference entitled The English Reformation and European Renaissance, whichwill take place on the afternoon of 28th March 2020 and will feature Professors Peter Davidson (Oxford) and Gerard Kilroy (UCL). They will examine the cultural interaction between England having undergone a religious revolution and continental Europe during the Renaissance.
Professor Davidson will examine how the poetry of the famous Jesuit saint, Robert Southwell, reached and sustained not only its immediate and Catholic audience, but a rather more diverse section of English society. Professor Kilroy will explore how English Catholicism was maintained and nurtured by exiles on the continent, and how a particular relationship between England and Europe continued as a result.
There will follow a Q and A session with the Professors and an optional evening seminar entitled Practical Problems in the Study of the British Catholic Diaspora. For full details and booking, please visit the event’s page on their website: https://christianheritagecentre.com/event/reformation-renaissance-conference/ Generous discounts are available for students booking as individuals or as part of a group.
On Saturday 7th March the Christian Heritage Centre, Stonyhurst, Lancashire, will be running a family day on Our English Christian History and Its Saints. This will be a day of learning about and celebrating our English Christian story, and it will feature workshops, talks and a history walk for the adults, with parallel creative activities for the children. All are welcome of course, not just families! But we hope it will be a lovely day of community activity, fostered by buns, cakes and scones to help things along; and a glass of something bubbly to round it off! Please click here for more info and to register.
Their next evening talk on Caravaggio, Communicating the Invisible, will be on Thursday 20th March at 7:30pm. Please click here for more information.
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It was with great sadness that we heard recently of the death of Father Brian Doolan, who was our Chairman for many years. His funeral arrangements have been announced by the Archdiocese of Birmingham and details can be found on this link: https://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/news/funeral-arrangements-fr-brian-doolan
May he Rest In Peace
To read the text of Professor Ryrie’s recent lecture go to the link below:
A Free Lecture:
The origins of Anti-Catholicism by Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity
Alec Ryrie is a Professor in the History of Christianity at Durham University. He’s a superb speaker and his previous series on Extreme Christianity and Atheism have been very illuminating.
How The English Learned to Hate Catholics
Weds 20 November, 6pm-7pm
Museum of London
Professor Alec Ryrie
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/how-the-english-learned-to-hate-catholics
Medieval England was proudly Catholic and ostentatiously loyal to Rome. But from the late sixteenth century until recent times – and even now – anti-Catholic prejudice has been a cornerstone of English and British identity.
This lecture will look at how this prejudice grew out of the persecution of Protestants in the 1550s, at the idealistic historian who crystallised it, and at the political crises, real and invented, which turned his text into a paranoiacs’ charter.
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597. You can read more about our history here. This lecture, like most of ours, is open to the public on a first come first served basis, but we can book seats for schools/ colleges for all our lectures. https://www.gresham.ac.uk/schools.
Please join us:
1.30pm AGM
2.30pm Sheepfolds for Strayed Sheep – Catholic mission in 19th century Inner London – a talk by Jean Maynard followed by tea and a tour of the church.
Admission £5 on the door.
