A professional writer, editor, and educator, Robert has worked in Catholic and secular publishing since 2010. He studied applied science, history, and Spanish as an undergraduate, earned a Master of Arts in literature and linguistics, and is currently pursuing a PhD in English literature and literary theory. A Secular Brother of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in London, Robert lives physically in the southeastern United States and spiritually in Cangues d'Onís, Spain.
Author: Robert V. Newman
A Psychological Approach to Understanding Sedevacantism
Sedevacantism: from Latin sedes, “seat, bench, throne,” and the verb vacare, “to be empty.” As a legal term denoting a temporary episcopal vacancy, sede vacante is unimpeachable. My objections begin with the addition of the notoriously modern suffix “-ism,” with …
A Psychological Approach to Treating the Disease of Ultramontanism
Chesterton affirmed that great writers and artists are symbolic without knowing it. I would go further and say that human beings in general are symbolic without knowing it. Mountains represent a liminal space between heaven and earth, between divinity and …