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Blessed John Henry Newman

Religious liberalism is dead: it’s time to give it a decent burial

June 02, 2014

Faced with the drama of sin and death, the 'Church of Nice' simply doesn’t cut it

We need to pray for another Fulton Sheen

March 20, 2014

The case of Archbishop Sheen is especially significant for our times

What now is the future for the English episcopate? Just when things weren’t looking too hopeful, we get another Ratzingerian appointment. What’s going on?

March 20, 2014

Is Fr Robert Byrne’s appointment a sign of things to come? How many more orthodox bishops can we now expect?

Pope appoints first Oratorian bishop in England for 140 years

March 15, 2014

Fr Robert Byrne will serve as an auxiliary bishop in Birmingham

The Holy Father is ‘consulting the faithful’ in preparation for next year’s synod on the family. But as Newman explained, ‘consulting’ them isn’t asking their advice

December 18, 2013

Conservatives are suspicious of, liberals excited by, the consultation of the laity on church teachings on contraception, same-sex marriage and divorce. But the teachings won’t change

Moving to a smaller house means shedding books: but a man’s library is a history of his mind: should I, for instance, throw out Why I Am Not a Christian?

November 29, 2013

This really was what at one time I would have called 'my bible': seeing that Bertrand Russell was just wrong wasn’t easy

Ordinariate unveils new Mass text that draws on Cranmer

October 11, 2013

Mass featuring new liturgy celebrated at the church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory

Some Catholic ‘traditionalists’ have about the same relationship with the Catholic tradition as the BNP with the English Conservative tradition

October 10, 2013

Pope Francis is sometimes unnerving. But he is after all the Pope, the Vicar of Christ. To some Catholics who claim to defend orthodox belief that means nothing