Edmund Campion

And they're very interconnected, all of them.

The Catesby's and the Tresham's and the Vaux's particularly, it all sort of starts with them in 1581, when the fathers, we're talking about the first generation of Catholics in Elizabethan England, are arrested for harboring Edmund Campion, who was a Jesuit priest.

It all starts really in the 1580s.

Elizabeth I is excommunicated in 1570.

There are other plots before, but in the 1580s, the Jesuit priests come in.

Edmund Campion was this celebrated, brilliant speaker, but he'd converted to Catholicism.

He'd trained abroad as a priest.

He came back in disguise as a jewel merchant, and they put him up in their houses, these fathers, William Vaux, Thomas Tresham, and William Catesby.

We're receiving some messages from people who are saying just what an exciting, invigorating, stimulating and informative time it has been.

and uh yeah what a what a day we've had even just today uh starting off with father connor mcdonough and then henry and elaine are talking about volunteering and the radio father dominic robinson cardinal manning brendan thompson on st edmund campion edmund manchashik on the return of the queen we've had mass from walsingham abbot brendan thomas of belmont abbey on julian of norwich coming up later in the afternoon we've got father john church and joe granger We'll be speaking about Dominican young adults and that growing mission.

We'll have Anna Johnstone talking on St. Carlo Acutis, my friend in heaven.

She was the nanny to Carlo Acutis' siblings.

I'm to attend a debate tomorrow.

Some of the Queen's theologians will be scrutinizing the Catholic priest Edmund Campion.

I believe you are an admirer of Campion for his strong faith and academic prowess?

Why, yes.

Our tutor, Deacon Gregory Martin, and he were close friends at Oxford.

He told me many stories of how Campion's unwavering faith and arguments in defense of the sacrament's tradition and liturgy have converted even the most unfaithful to Catholicism.

Apparently, Campion's latest publication has caused quite a stir.

It declares the ten reasons why Catholicism is the true faith.

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Edmund Campion, Letter to the Lords of Her Majesty's Privy Council, 1580.

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If these my offers be refused, and my endeavors can take no place, and I, having run thousands of miles to do you good, shall be rewarded with rigor, I have no more to say, but to recommend your case and mine to Almighty God, the searcher of hearts, who sends us his grace, and set us at accord before the day of payment, to the end we may at last be friends in heaven, when all injuries shall be forgotten.

End of Edmund Campion, Letter to the Lords of Her Majesty's Privy Council, 1580.

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We are still in charge, and nothing will change.

Because if he was a threat the way that Edmund Campion was a threat and Robert Southwell was a threat and Nicholas Owen was a threat, there would have been a different outcome.

But the people indifferent to the truth were so confident of their power that they could even let the Pope of Rome come in and leave alive because they know that nothing significant would happen.

Now, what would Newman say? Well, Newman says that the truth is the object of the church.