Fr. Rene Kollar, O.S.B.
Books
“Benjamin Carlyle, [Abbot Aelred Carlyle]” The Welsh Connection, Scan Film, Spring 1983, for BBC Wales.
Westminster Cathedral: From Dream to Reality. Edinburgh: F & L Publications, 1987. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 10.
Westminster Cathedral: From Dream to Reality. Paperback Edition, 1988.
The Return of the Benedictines to London: A History of Ealing Abbey from 1896 to Independence. Tunbridge Wells (England): Burns and Oates, 1990.
Abbot Aelred Carlyle, Caldey Island, and the Anglo-Catholic Revival in England, American University Studies, Series VII: Theology and Religion. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1995.
A Universal Appeal: Aspects of the Revival of Monasticism in the West in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries. San Francisco: International Scholars Publications, 1996.
A Universal Appeal: Aspects of the Revival of Monasticism in the West in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries. Paperback Edition, 1996.
Searching for Raymond: Anglicanism, Spiritualism, and Bereavement between the Two World Wars. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2000.
A Foreign and Wicked Institution? The Campaign against Convents in Victorian England. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2011. Hardback and paperback editions. Kindle edition, 2014. Published in Great Britain by James Clarke and Co. Ltd, Cambridge, 2011.
A Foreign and Wicked Institution? The Campaign against Convents in Victorian England. Published as PDF eBook by James Clarke and Co. Ltd, 2014.
Articles, Book Chapters, Book Reviews
“Anglo-Catholicism in the Church of England, 1895-1913: Abbot Aelred Carlyle and the Monks of Caldey Island.” Harvard Theological Review 76 (April 1983): 205-24. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 5.
“The Influence of the Anglican Benedictines on Ronald Knox.” The American Benedictine Review 34 (October 1983): 317-28.
“The Oxford Movement and the Heritage of Benedictine Monasticism.” The Downside Review 101 (October 1983): 281-90. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 1.
“The Archives of Ealing Abbey, London: 1896-1947.” Catholic Archives 4 (Spring 1984): 48-52.
“Lord Halifax and Monasticism in the Church of England.” Church History 53 (June 1984): 218-30. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 7.
“The Opposition to Ritualism in Victorian England.” Irish Theological Quarterly 51 (January 1985): 63-74.
“The Caldey Monks and the Catholic Press: 1905-1913.” Recusant History 17 (April 1985): 287-98. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 9.
“Pax: An Early Ecumenical Journal.” The Heythrop Journal 26 (July 1985): 294-309. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 8.
“A Question of Authority: The Anglican Nuns of West Malling.” Studia Monastica 27 (1985): 133-56. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 3.
“Archbishop Davidson, Bishop Gore, and Abbot Carlyle.” In Studies in Church History: Monks, Hermits and the Ascetic Tradition, 377-96. Edited by W. J. Sheils. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985.
“Dr. Pusey and Fr. Ignatius of Llanthony.” The Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical History 2 (1985): 27-40. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 2.
“Let My People Go: History as Freedom in the Book of Exodus.” In Keeping the Day, Contemplations of the Book of Exodus, A Festschrift Honoring Reverend Robert Vogelsang, 51-59. Edited by William Stubbs. Allison Park, PA: Pickwick Publications, 1985.
“The American Sanctuary Movement and the English Legal Tradition.” The Clergy Review 70 (November 1985): 411-14.
“Ealing: The Proper and Respectable London Suburb.” Local History (May 1985): 22-24.
“Conversions to Roman Catholicism and the Challenge to Ecumenism.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 23 (Spring 1986): 276-80.
“Odyssey of an Abbot.” Church Times [London], 29 August 1986.
“Bishops and Benedictines: The Case of Father Richard O’Halloran.” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 38 (July 1987): 362-85. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 12.
“The Return of the Benedictines to London.” Tjurunga 33 (September 1987): 36-51. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 11.
“Anglican Brotherhoods and Urban Social Work.” Churchman 101 (1987): 140-45.
“Westminster Cathedral: From Dream to Reality.” The Friends of Westminster Cathedral (Autumn 1987).
“Freedom Through Discipline: Benedictine Education.” The Priorian 116 (1987): 15-18.
“Bishops and Benedictines: The Case of Father Richard O’Halloran.” Millhilliana (1988): 21-32. (Reprinted from Journal of Ecclesiastical History).
“American Fundamentalism: The Prophetic Conscience of America.” Priests and People 2 (March 1988): 61-64.
Mitchell, Sally, ed. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988. S. v. “Religious Orders.”
“Ritualism and Anti-Ritualism.” In Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia.
“Herbert Vaughan.” In Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia.
“The English Benedictines and the Convert Monks of Caldey.” Tjurunga 37 (September 1989): 37-43.
Müller, Gerhard, ed. Theologische Realenzykopädie. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1990. S. v. “Konversion.”
“Archbishop Lang, Archbishop Temple, and the Origins of the 1939 Report.” The Christian Parapsychologist 8 (June 1990): 204-08.
Keeping the Faith: Essays to Mark the Centenary of Lux Mundi, by G. Wainright, ed. In Journal of Ecumenical Studies 26 (Summer 1990): 567-68.
Bilheimer. In Journal of Ecumenical Studies 27 (Winter 1990): 135-36.
“The Reluctant Prior: Bishop Wulstan Pearson of Lancaster.” Recusant History 20 (May 1991): 403-13. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 13.
“Bishop Charles Grafton’s Dream for Religious Life in the American Episcopal Church: The Influence of the Monastic Revival in the Church of England.” Studia Monastica 33 (1991): 133-43. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 15.
“The 1897 Lambeth Conference and the Question of Religious Life in the Anglican Communion.” Cistercian Studies Quarterly 26 (December 1991): 319-29. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 4.
“The 1913 Caldey Island Property Inquiry: The Convert Monks and the Question of Ownership.” Revue Bénédictine 102 (Spring 1992): 208-26.
“Monks, Pilgrims, and the Attractions of Caldey Island in the Time of Aelred Carlyle.” Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical History 9 (1992): 52-63.
“Plans for an Eighteenth Century Benedictine Settlement in Western Pennsylvania: Bishop Carroll and the English Benedictine Congregation.” In Word and Spirit: Aspects of Monasticism in America, 3-11. Petersham, Massachusetts: Saint Bede’s Publications, 1992. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 14.
“Pope Leo XIII, Merry Del Val, and the Converts’ Aid Society.” Australasian Catholic Record 69 (October 1992): 487-91.
“Ritualism in a Gloucestershire Village: Anglican Monks, Clergymen, and the Parishioners of Lower Guiting.” Tjurunga 43 ( November 1992): 65-81. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 6.
“The Anglo-Catholic Campaign against Revision of the Book of Common Prayer. The Hickleton Conference of 1911.” Studia Liturgica 23 (1993): 194-206.
“Anglican Benedictine Monks and a Roman Catholic Liturgy: The Relationship between Worship and Doctrine.” Ecclesia Orans 10 (1993): 183-99.
“The Demise of the American Educational System and a Traditional Response: Benedictine Monastic Values.” Providence: Studies in Western Civilization 2 (1994): 321-32.
“Charles Gore and Anglican Religious Communities.” Louvain Studies 19 (Summer 1994): 163-79.
“The Anglican Benedictines and Rescue Work among the City Youth of England.” In Word and Spirit: The Monastery and the City, 82-94. Petersham, Massachusetts: Saint Bede’s Publications, 1994.
“Plans for an Eighteenth Century Benedictine Settlement in Western Pennsylvania: Bishop Carroll and the English Benedictine Congregation.” St. Vincent 29 (Winter 1995): 13-15. (Reprinted from Word and Spirit: Aspects of Monasticism in America).
Saint Vincent Archabbey and Its Role in the Development of Slovak-American Culture and History, St. Vincent Archabbey, Spring 1995.
“A Question of Monastic Independence: Caldey Island’s Status as an Ecclesiastical Peculiar in the Early Twentieth Century.” The Journal of Welsh Religious History 3 (1995): 54-65.
“William Temple’s Views on Life after Death: An Anglican Eschatology for the Twentieth Century.” Journal of Religion and Psychical Research 18 (October 1995): 208-214.
Müller, Gerhard, ed. Theologische Realenzykopädie. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995. S. v. “Anglikanische Orden.”
Fritze, Ronald H. and Robinson, eds. Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996. S. v. “Congregationalism.”
“George Fox.” In Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689.
“Quakers.” In Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689.
“Recusancy.” In Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689.
“‘A Monk in Court’: An Example of Religious Intolerance in Late Nineteenth Century England.” The American Benedictine Review 47 (December 1996): 358-384.
“Saint Vincent Archabbey and Its Role in the Development of Slovak-American Culture and History.” In 1966 Good Shepherd (Dorby´ Pastier), 99-103. Edited by Anne Kremenik. Middletown, PA: Jednota Press, 1996. Reprint of Saint Vincent Archabbey and Its Role in the Development of Slovak-American Culture and History, Saint Vincent Archabbey, Spring 1995.
“Ealing Abbey Centenary. The First Half: 1897-1947.” The Priorian 125 (1996-97): 3-6.
“Prophecy, Anglicanism, and the Great War: The Archbishop of Canterbury and Joanna Southcott’s Sealed Box.” Dutch Review of Church History 78 (1998): 94-112.
“The English Benedictine Congregation and the Establishment of Ealing Abbey in London.” English Benedictine History Symposium 1998 16 (1998): 1-18.
“Bishop William Ullathorne and His Defense of Convents: The 1851 Bill for Parliamentary Inspection of Convents.” Tjurunga 5(November 1998): 75-90. Reprinted in A Foreign and Wicked Institution?, chapter 1.
“A Welsh Bishop and a Monastic Brotherhood: The Case of Bishop John Owen, the Anglican Benedictine Monks, and the Role of Episcopal Authority.” The Journal of Welsh Religious History 6 (1998): 45-55.
“An Early Attempt at an Anglican Congregation of Religious Orders: The Anglican Benedictines and the Society of the Sacred Mission.” Studia Monastica 40 (1998): 329-41.
“The Origin of the Report.” In Spiritualism: The 1939 Report to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 5-10. Edited by Michael Perry. Louth, Lincolnshire: The Churches’ Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies, 1999. (Reprinted from The Christian Parapsychologist).
“The Church of England and Joanna Southcott: The Revelation of Her Secret Writings in 1927.” The Journal of Religion and Psychical Research 22 (April 1999): 68-82.
“Spiritualism and Religion. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Critique of Christianity and Roman Catholicism and a Roman Catholic Response.” Recusant History 24 (May 1999): 397-413.
“Aelred Carlyle.” Ealing Abbey Magazine, July 1999.
Saint Vincent Archabbey and Its Role in the Development of Slovak-American Culture and History. Revised version, Saint Vincent Archabbey, Summer 1999.
Johnston, William, ed. Encyclopedia of Monasticism vol 2. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers: Chicago, 2000. S. v. “Wimmer, Boniface, OSB (1809-1887).”
Walsh, Michael, ed. Dictionary of Christian Biography. London: Continuum, 2001.
S. v. “Carlyle, Aelred.”
“Sheen, Fulton J.” In Dictionary of Christian Biography.
“Spellman, Francis.” In Dictionary of Christian Biography.
“Wimmer, Boniface.” In Dictionary of Christian Biography.
“They Walled Up Nuns, Didn’t They? Montezuma’s Daughter and Anti-Catholicism in Victorian England.” The Downside Review 119 (July 2001): 157-76. Reprinted in A Foreign and Wicked Institution?, chapter 2.
“Two Lectures at Bath: The Rev. M. Hobart Seymour and Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman and the Nunnery Question.” Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique 96 (2001): 372-90. Reprinted in A Foreign and Wicked Institution?, chapter 3.
“Foreign and Catholic: A Plea to Protestant Parents on the Dangers of Convent Education In Victorian England.” History of Education. 31 (July 2002): 335-50. Reprinted in A Foreign and Wicked Institution?, chapter 9.
“Those Horrible Iron Cages: The Kilburn Sisters and the Management or Mismanagement of Orphanages in Late Victorian England.” The American Benedictine Review. 53 (September 2002): 264-84. Reprinted in A Foreign and Wicked Institution?, chapter 6.
“Travels in America: Abbot Aelred Carlyle, Anglican Benedictine Monasticism and His American ‘Allies.’” [http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/essays/kollar]. Project Canterbury. April 2003.
“Education Based on the Rule of St. Benedict.” Momentum. The Official Journal of the National Catholic Educational Association. April/May 2003, 56-59.
“The Silence Surrounding the Attempted Assassination of Abbot Boniface Wimmer, Founder of Saint Vincent Archabbey and College.” Westmoreland History. 3 (April 2003): 38-42.
“A Death in the Family: Bishop Archibald Campbell Tait, the Rights of Parents, and Anglican Sisterhoods in the Diocese of London.” Journal of Religious History. 27 (June 2003): 198-214. Reprinted in A Foreign and Wicked Institution?, chapter 10.
“Giacinto Achilli versus the Roman Catholic Church: Morality, Religion and the Court of Public Opinion in Victorian England.” Fides Quaerens Intellectum. A Journal of Theology, Philosophy & History. 3 (Autumn 2003): 87-110. Reprinted in A Foreign and Wicked Institution?, chapter 14.
Saint Vincent Archabbey and Its Role in the Development of Slovak-American Culture and History. Second revised edition, Saint Vincent Archabbey, Fall 2003.
“An Anglican Sisterhood and Auricular Confession: A Popish Practice in a Devonport Sisterhood.” Sewanee Theological Review. 47 (Christmas 2003): 33-52. Reprinted in A Foreign and Wicked Institution?, chapter 13.
“Centuries-Old Rule Still Relevant Today: Education Based on the Rule of Saint Benedict.” Quarterly: A Saint Vincent College Publication, Winter 2004, 11-13. Reprinted from Momentum. The Official Journal of the National Catholic Educational Association. April/May 2003, 56-59.
“Flowers, Pictures, and Crosses: Criticisms of Priscilla Lydia Sellon's Care of Young Girls.” Anglican Theological Review. 86 (Summer 2004): 451-71. Reprinted in A Foreign and Wicked Institution?, chapter 7.
“Magdalenes and Nuns: The Convent Enquiry Society and the Critique of Convent Laundries in Late Victorian England.” Anglican and Episcopal History. 73 (September 2004): 309-34. Reprinted in A Foreign and Wicked Institution?, chapter 8.
Harrison, Brian, ed. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. S.v. “Bourne, Francis Alphonsus, (1861-1935).”
“Dolling, Robert William Radcliffe, (Father Dolling), (1851-1902)” revision. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
“Lyne, Joseph Leycester (Father Ignatius), (1837-1908).” In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
“Tait, Catharine, (1819-1878).” In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
“The Priest, the Nun, and Confession: An Anti-Catholic Stereotype and Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian England.” Faith and Reason. 29 (Summer-Winter 2004): 183-205. Reprinted in A Foreign and Wicked Institution?, chapter 11.
“Power and Control over Women in Victorian England: Male Opposition to Sacramental Confession in the Anglican Church.” Journal of Anglican Studies. 3 (June 2005): 11-32. Reprinted in A Foreign and Wicked Institution?, chapter 12.
“The Myth and the Reality of Sister Barbara Ubryk, the Imprisoned Nun of Cracow: English Interpretations of a Victorian Religious Controversy.” In Victorian Churches and Churchmen: Essays Presented to Vincent Alan McClelland, 139-62. Edited by Sheridan Gilley. The Boydell Press: Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2005. Reprinted in A Foreign and Wicked Institution?, chapter 4.
“An American ‘Escaped Nun’ on Tour in England: Edith O’Gorman’s Critique of Convent Life.” Feminist Theology. 14 (January 2006): 205-20. Reprinted in A Foreign and Wicked Institution?, chapter 5.
“The Anglo-Catholic Campaign against Revision of the Book of Common Prayer. The Hickleton Conference of 1911. [http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/essays/kollar]. Project Canterbury. June 2006. Reprinted from Studia Liturgica 23 (1993): 194-206.
Saint Vincent Archabbey and Its Role in the Development of Slovak-American Culture and History. Third revised edition, Saint Vincent Archabbey, Summer 2007.
“Centuries-Old Rule Still Relevant Today: Education Based on the Rule of Saint Benedict.” [http://www.delbharton.org]. RE 109: The Benedictines: Psalms Block (Spring 2008.) Reprinted from Momentum. The Official Journal of the National Catholic Educational Association. April/May 2003, 56-59.
“A Question of Rescue Work or Abduction: Eliza McDermot and Anti-Convent Prejudice in Victorian England.” Recusant History. 29 (October 2008): 214-31.
“Allegations of Convent Violence, the Campaign Against Sisterhoods in Victorian England, and the Response of Parliament.” Studia Monastica. 50 (2008): 255-274.
“James Britten, the Catholic Truth Society, and the Defense of Convent Life in Late Victorian England.” The Australasian Catholic Record. 88 (January 2011): 30-42.
“Move Over Blokes. Women and the Benedictine Ideal of Education.” Tjurunga. An Australasian Benedictine Review. 80 (May 2011): 55-60.
“Fr. Sydney Fenn Smith, S.J., and His Response to a ‘Rescued Nun’ Story: An Episode in Nineteenth Century English Anti-Catholicism.” Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu. 81 (January-June 2012): 193-217.
“‘Punch’ and the Nuns: Anti-Catholicism and Satire in Mid-Nineteenth Century England.” The Downside Review. 130 (July 2012): 1-26.
“Science and the Supernatural.” With Marianne Reid Anderson. Northern Connection. (October 2013): 36-37.
“Convents, the Bible, and English Anti-Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century.” Women’s History Magazine (Women’s History). (Spring 2014): 11-18.
“An Old Tradition and a New Beginning: The Evolution of Freshman Orientation at Saint Vincent College.” Gathered Fragments. A Publication of The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. 24 (Fall 2014): 44-46.
Introduction to Terrence G. Kardong, OSB, “Saint Benedict and the Twelfth-Century Reformation,” Cistercian Studies Quarterly. 36 (2001): 279-309. In The American Benedictine Review. 70 (September 2019): 295.
