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Initiative to return traditional Catholic music to Australian schools proves a rousing success

April 16, 2024

Recently, Catholics celebrated the 60th anniversary y of the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium. But, many of its intended reforms are yet to be achieved. Sadly, the decades since the council have often been characterised by deeply entrenched and divergent views. An area of particular division is that of sacred

A misguided sham: International Women’s Day

March 08, 2024

Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), a day which proclaims to act as a focal point in the women’s rights movement, “celebrating” the achievements of women, gender equality and reproductive rights. Hashtagged #EmbraceEquity, it is a day for all women: short women, tall women, fat women, thin women, rich women, poor women, women with penises and 18”

Preaching to the unconverted

August 12, 2022

Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance Emily Michelson Princeton University Press, £30, 352 pages In 1555 Pope Paul IV decreed that Rome’s Jews, “who through their own fault were condemned to eternal servitude”, should now live within the walls of a ghetto whose doors would be locked at night. These strictures

Responsibility, Accountability, Transparency: The State of Church Reform

April 24, 2021

If there are stalwart reformers -- and we know there are some of the clerisy genuinely committed to the work of ripping out the rot and repairing the Church's leadership culture -- we might nonetheless reasonably wonder whether they have the wherewithal to bring about meaningful reform.