Hugh Edmund Ford (1851–1930), first abbot of the English Benedictine monastery at Downside in Somerset, had a reputation, especially in monastic circles, as a scholarly and reforming monk. He is much less well known than his contemporary confrères, Cardinal Aidan Gasquet and Abbot Cuthbert Butler, lacking Gasquet’s public profile and Butler’s list of much-respected publications. Ford’s considerable political and diplomatic skills were honed in the promotion of a monastic reform movement which transformed the English Benedictine Congregation. He travelled widely on monastic business and also on account of his always delicate health. More surprisingly, in 1918, he acted as an agent for the British government on a mission to neutral Switzerland, where the Benedictine abbey of Einsiedeln provided a refuge for many Germans displaced from Rome when Italy entered the Great War in 1915. Ford made use of the various ecclesiastical networks available to him,including the Benedictine Confederation centred on S. Anselmo in Rome and connections made through the school at Downside. This article places Ford in these and other Catholic networks and demonstrates how they were put to use in the Allied cause during the First World War.
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{"title":"Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez, Radicals in Exile: English Catholic Books during the Reign of Philip II, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020, pp. xii + 264, $99.95, ISBN: 978-0-271-08601-9","authors":"Ana Sáez‐Hidalgo","doi":"10.1017/bch.2021.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2021.20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":"35 1","pages":"486 - 488"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48165917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ireland in 1979 was an iconic moment in the history of twentieth-century Irish Catholicism. It has, however, received little detailed historical scrutiny. Based on state archival and hitherto unavailable diocesan material, this article contextualizes the visit by explaining the pastoral and leadership challenges that confronted the Irish hierarchy. Second, this article discusses how close the pope came to visiting Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles. This was of concern not just to the hierarchy but to the Irish and British governments. Third, the organization of the visit, which was closely tied to the pastoral concerns of the Irish bishops, is surveyed. Lastly, the pastoral impact of the visit is considered. If the Catholic hierarchy hoped that the papal visit might arrest the declining institutional influence of the Catholic Church, reverse a quiet but growing faith crisis, or hasten a cessation of violence in Northern Ireland, then those expectations were misplaced. Ultimately, the pastoral impulse of the 1979 papal visit to Ireland was to preserve rather than renew the Irish Catholic tradition at a time when Irish Catholics were fixed on future material advancement rather than fidelity to their spiritual past.
{"title":"Why did Pope John Paul II visit Ireland? The 1979 papal visit in context","authors":"Daithí Ó Corráin","doi":"10.1017/bch.2021.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2021.19","url":null,"abstract":"Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ireland in 1979 was an iconic moment in the history of twentieth-century Irish Catholicism. It has, however, received little detailed historical scrutiny. Based on state archival and hitherto unavailable diocesan material, this article contextualizes the visit by explaining the pastoral and leadership challenges that confronted the Irish hierarchy. Second, this article discusses how close the pope came to visiting Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles. This was of concern not just to the hierarchy but to the Irish and British governments. Third, the organization of the visit, which was closely tied to the pastoral concerns of the Irish bishops, is surveyed. Lastly, the pastoral impact of the visit is considered. If the Catholic hierarchy hoped that the papal visit might arrest the declining institutional influence of the Catholic Church, reverse a quiet but growing faith crisis, or hasten a cessation of violence in Northern Ireland, then those expectations were misplaced. Ultimately, the pastoral impulse of the 1979 papal visit to Ireland was to preserve rather than renew the Irish Catholic tradition at a time when Irish Catholics were fixed on future material advancement rather than fidelity to their spiritual past.","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":"35 1","pages":"462 - 485"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47116592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alexander Soetaert, De Katholieke Drukpers in de Kerkprovincie Kamerijk: Contacten, Mobiliteit & Transfers in een Grensgebied (1559–1659), Leuven, Paris, and Bristol, CT: Peeters, 2019, pp. 460, €68.00, ISBN: 9789042940215","authors":"David de Boer","doi":"10.1017/bch.2021.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2021.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":"35 1","pages":"360 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/bch.2021.10","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41928969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Wolffe, Sacred and Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland Since 1914, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, pp. ix + 197, £85.00, ISBN: 9781350019270","authors":"Joan Redmond","doi":"10.1017/bch.2021.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2021.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":"35 1","pages":"365 - 367"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/bch.2021.12","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46015247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
knowledge of the Counter-Reformation, the early public sphere, and the use of the press in the reconsolidation of Habsburg rule in the Southern Netherlands. Soetaert’s understandable aim for comprehensiveness leaves room for more thorough literary criticism and questions about the cultural impact of transregional exchanges. A case in point is the discussion of the Netherlandish engraver Martin Baes, who provided dozens of illustrations for English martyrologies. The book minutely reconstructs the process by which Baes was commissioned, but leaves open the extent to which this resulted in the transfer of a Netherlandish print culture to the British Isles. Finally, while the book successfully advances the argument that the Ecclesiastical Province of Cambrai transcended its regional significance, the choice to publish it in Dutch hardly supports this claim. One hopes an English translation will be commissioned soon. All in all, De Katholieke Drukpers in de Kerkprovincie Kamerijk makes a convincing case for the importance of regions in the European book trade and deserves a wide readership among students of the early modern Low Countries, English Catholicism, and the European book trade.
{"title":"Kelsey Jackson Williams, The First Scottish Enlightenment. Rebels, Priests, and History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. xv + 351, £70, ISBN: 9780198809692","authors":"Tom Tölle","doi":"10.1017/bch.2021.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2021.11","url":null,"abstract":"knowledge of the Counter-Reformation, the early public sphere, and the use of the press in the reconsolidation of Habsburg rule in the Southern Netherlands. Soetaert’s understandable aim for comprehensiveness leaves room for more thorough literary criticism and questions about the cultural impact of transregional exchanges. A case in point is the discussion of the Netherlandish engraver Martin Baes, who provided dozens of illustrations for English martyrologies. The book minutely reconstructs the process by which Baes was commissioned, but leaves open the extent to which this resulted in the transfer of a Netherlandish print culture to the British Isles. Finally, while the book successfully advances the argument that the Ecclesiastical Province of Cambrai transcended its regional significance, the choice to publish it in Dutch hardly supports this claim. One hopes an English translation will be commissioned soon. All in all, De Katholieke Drukpers in de Kerkprovincie Kamerijk makes a convincing case for the importance of regions in the European book trade and deserves a wide readership among students of the early modern Low Countries, English Catholicism, and the European book trade.","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":"35 1","pages":"362 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49284158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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