This week’s archival blog is again from the first volume of Studies, however this time it hails from the very first issue. While archival – first printed in 1912 – it has direct links to… Read the Article »The Modern Problem of Athenian Imperialism
In this article from 2018, Dr Celia G Kenny addresses the concept of protest through poetry and the poet’s ability to speak truth to power and act as a mirror to contemporary society. She focuses… Read the Article »Theology, Poetry, and Protest in Israel
In this article from the very first volume of Studies, author Daniel (D.J.) Finn, SJ, writes in defence of archaeology as a scientific discipline, against a public that perceived of it as something indulged in… Read the Article »On the Place of Archaeology
In this article from 1922, author Herbert Thurston provides a scathing rebuttal of Margaret Murray’s The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology – in large part against her dubious use of sources; her… Read the Article »On Witchcraft
In 1928, Irish author and academic Violet Conolly published ‘Two Months in Soviet Russia’ between December 1928 and March 1929. Broad in scope, the author provided her first-hand experiences as she travelled from Reval (now… Read the Article »Soviet Russia Revisited
In this concise article from 1997, author Pamela M. Jones explores the transitional period in Italian art that took place place between 1590 – 1630 and the paths it crossed contemporaneously with the era of… Read the Article »Caravaggio and Early Modern Catholicism
In this article from 1912, Arthur E. Clery rallies for the extension of the vote to the youth population. A supporter of female suffrage and for the abolition of corporal punishment, he notes in his… Read the Article »Votes for Youth
In this article from 1913, author D.J. Finn (Daniel J. Finn, SJ) examines the true polychromatic nature of Greek sculpture throughout its different ages; and rails against the contemporary (then, and now) misassociation of ‘pure’… Read the Article »The Greeks and Painted Sculpture
The Catholic Church has a new Pope. A new papacy is often surrounded by speculation regarding the chosen papal name and what it may mean with regards to the bearer’s intentions, policies, and visions for… Read the Article »A retrospective on Rerum Novarum
Following the death of Pope Francis this week, we revisit this short article from 2019 by Martin Maier SJ which interprets the future of human work through the lens of Laudato Si’. Published in 2015,… Read the Article »Laudato Si’ and the Future of Work